Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge gnash

[Michael Mol]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net> wrote:
>> Am 12.07.2012 17:40, schrieb Ezequiel Garcia:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was trying to emerge gnash but failed. Here's the output....
>>>
>>> The problem seems to be boost_thread not present. I'll try to emerge
>>> that, but in any case this
>>> looks like a gentoo bug in gnash ebuild.
>>>
>>> If anyone helps me filling a new bug, I'll appreciate it.
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Could be related to
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366407
>>
>
> Thanks!
>
> It seems this is a different bug.
>
> Before filing a new bug, I should do emerge --sync,
> (to have latest ebuilds), right?

For me, I'd go:

# In case there's something already broken I don't know about.
revdep-rebuild

# Remove 'theoretically' unused versions of things.
emerge --depclean

# Because we ran --depclean, something may now be broken.
revdep-rebuild

# does an emerge --sync
eix-sync

# Perhaps specify the particular package, instead of @world
emerge --update --deep --newuse @world

# Again, remove old versions of things.
emerge --depclean

# Again, because --depclean can break things.
revdep-rebuild

...and then see if I can reproduce it.

> I wonder why they've used boost! (I'm not a big fan of it)

Boost probably had some code in it they didn't want to reinvent
themselves. It's also pretty common, which makes things easier for a
developer who wants to get into more distributions' repositories.

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:wq