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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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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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Regards, |
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Mick |
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