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From: karl@××××××××.se
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge libxcb fails
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 20:52:44
Message-Id: 20160123205230.2EC4281053E3@turkos.aspodata.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge libxcb fails by karl@aspodata.se
1 Karl Hammar:
2 > Alec Ten Harmsel:
3 > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:05:49PM +0100, karl@××××××××.se wrote:
4 > > > Alec: Ten Harmsel:
5 > > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 08:01:19PM +0100, karl@××××××××.se wrote:
6 > > > > > Makefile:1318: recipe for target 'xinput.c' failed
7 > > > > > when emerging x11-libs/libxcb-1.11.1, logs etc.:
8 ...
9 > > The problem is a python script that runs in the build process has a
10 > > KeyError. I did notice that for you, that python script is running on
11 > > files in `/usr/local/share/xcb', while it runs on files in
12 > > `/usr/share/xcb' on mine. These are a part of the `x11-proto/xcb-proto'
13 > > package. Do you have a version of xcb-proto installed in /usr/local? It
14 > > is possible that the libxcb configure script is picking an old version
15 > > of xcb-proto that is installed in `/usr/local' over the correct version
16 > > installed in `/usr'.
17 >
18 > Yes, that's probably it, thanks for the look.
19 >
20 > > I would recommend removing `/usr/local/share/xcb' and trying to install
21 > > libxcb again.
22 >
23 > I mv'ed /usr/local/share but it didn't help.
24
25 emerge -C'd x*/* thing, and reemerged, didn't help.
26
27 Restarting the installation of gentoo from the very beginning helped.
28 Wasn't aware of that /usr/local could affect installing gentoo
29 packages, havn't had that experience with binary distributions.
30 Well, case closed.
31
32 Regards,
33 /Karl Hammar
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge libxcb fails Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@××××××××××××××.com>