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hi James, |
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Where can I read up on the flags in some detail? |
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you can read it online at: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml |
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this page lists the global USE flags and the local USE flags. |
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you can also read information about USE flags using the program "equery" |
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(which, by the way, is in the gentoolkit package :P): |
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$ equery u python |
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it lists the USE flags of that package with a description, and if you have |
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it enabled or not for that package. |
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if you want to go a bit further, you can read the ebuild file ( |
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http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/python/python-2.6.2-r1.ebuild?view=markup) |
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and see what it does when the USE flag "threads" is enabled. the python |
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ebuild only passes that information to the Python configure script |
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(--with-threads), so you should read in Python documentation why threads |
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support is so important (or not). |
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Is this a good idea or bad idea to leave the "-threads" flag unset |
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> in rebuilding python or any other package on this mostly iptables firewall? |
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according to the "Local USE flags" webpage: |
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python | threads: Enable threading support (DON'T DISABLE THIS UNLESS YOU |
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KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING) |
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it's better to keep it enabled =) |
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see you, |
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:41 AM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Crístian Viana <cristiandeives <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> > Ebuils that need xml support don't have a USE flag for it. Only those |
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> it's optional. |
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> > python has optional XML support, but gentoolkit needs that feature.-- |
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> OK I got the xml flag issue resolved, but what about the "threads" flag"? |
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> From my original post: |
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> USE="-* -nls mmx hardened ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam perl pcre \ |
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> python readline zlib bzip2 nptl nptlonly syslog" |
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> so nptl and nptlonly flags are set. -* means most other flags are unset. |
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> To rebuild python, it want the xml flag set for gentoolkit (got it). |
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> But also it shows "-threads" flag as not set. |
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> dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r1 USE="berkdb ncurses readline ssl |
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> -build -doc -examples -gdbm* -ipv6* -sqlite -threads* -tk -ucs2 -wininst |
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> Is this a good idea or bad idea to leave the "-threads" flag unset |
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> in rebuilding python or any other package on this mostly iptables firewall? |
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> (even though nptl and nptlonly are set) ???? |
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> Where can I read up on the flags in some detail? |
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> James |
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Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1] |