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On 09/14/14 18:43, Mick wrote: |
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>On Sunday 14 Sep 2014 17:16:09 Joseph wrote: |
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>> On 09/14/14 18:57, Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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>> >On 14/09/14 18:46, Joseph wrote: |
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>> >> I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver" |
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>> >> |
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>> >> checking for bc... no |
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>> >> |
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>> >> configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a |
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>> >> standard |
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>> >> |
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>> >> part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your |
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>> >> |
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>> >> vendor |
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>> >> |
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>> >> has grown a clue. |
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>> >> |
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>> >> What is "bc"? |
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>> > |
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>> >It's calculator application and it's listed as a dependency in the |
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>> >xscreensaver ebuild in the official Portage tree: |
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>> > |
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>> >ssuominen@null ~/gentoo-x86/x11-misc/xscreensaver $ grep sys-devel/bc |
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>> >*.ebuild |
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>> >xscreensaver-5.29.ebuild: sys-devel/bc |
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>> >xscreensaver-5.30.ebuild: sys-devel/bc |
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>> > |
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>> >So no way to "emerge xscreensaver" without having sys-devel/bc getting |
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>> >installed first. |
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>> |
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>> The problem was sys-devel/bc. I had it installed. |
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>> Re-emerging sys-devel/bc solved the problem. |
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> |
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>This sounds like something was wrong/corrupt in your system. Did you re- |
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>emerge it with -1aDv? If not then unmerge it and then emerge it using -1, or |
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>just emerge xscreensaver, which ought to bring it in. To be honest there are |
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>lot of programs that depend on bcm so any of them would bring it in as a |
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>dependency. |
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>-- |
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>Regards, |
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>Mick |
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Good suggestion, I did it with -1 adding D will not hurt. |
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Joseph |
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