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On Thursday 12 November 2009 23:51:32 Marcus Wanner wrote: |
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> On 11/12/2009 4:43 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 12 November 2009 20:21:41 Marcus Wanner wrote: |
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> >> On 11/12/2009 12:56 PM, Roy Wright wrote: |
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> >>> On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote: |
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> >>>> On 11/12/2009 11:55 AM, Roy Wright wrote: |
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> >>>>> Disable (either temporary or permanent) the "xinerama" USE flag. |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> Me or Alan? |
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> >>> |
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> >>> OP |
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> >>> |
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> >>> As a suggestion for a work around for the compile issue. If you |
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> >>> temporarily disable xinerama, then the build should proceed. Then if |
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> >>> you need xinerama, enable the USE flag and build again. |
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> >> |
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> >> I don't have the xinerama use flag set anywhere...I don't know what it |
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> >> is, I don't want it, and I hopefully don't need it. |
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> >> |
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> >> I did put -xinerama in my use flag variable and try again, we'll see how |
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> >> that works...btw, I have switched to xorg-server-1.7.1, since I don't |
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> >> want to go through upgrading more than I need to. |
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> > |
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> > libXinerama and xineramaproto are hard-DEPENDS on quite a few things: |
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> > |
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> > $ equery depends libXinerama |
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> > * Searching for libXinerama ... |
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> > app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.3.185404 (x11-libs/libXinerama) |
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> > app-office/openoffice-3.1.1 (x11-libs/libXinerama) |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > $ equery depends xineramaproto |
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> > * Searching for xineramaproto ... |
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> > app-office/openoffice-3.1.1 (x11-proto/xineramaproto) |
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> > x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.1 (>=x11-proto/xineramaproto-1.1.3) |
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> > x11-libs/libXinerama-1.1 (>=x11-proto/xineramaproto-1.2) |
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> |
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> I'm really sorry for my noobishness, but could you explain exectly what |
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> "proto" means in this context and how it applies to me? |
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Xorg used to be one ginormous complicated package. It is now a ginormous |
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complicated collection of small packages, each one simple. |
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This is supposed to make someone's life easier. In reality it moves the |
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complexity from point A to point B, where you still have to deal with it :-) |
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The -proto packages are the protocol header files. They tell the compiler how |
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to build other packages that use those protocols. They are separate because |
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Ubuntu users don't need them - they don't compile stuff. You do, so you need |
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them, and the Xorg ebuilds pull them in. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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