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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-devel/bc required for kernel compile?
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:49:09
Message-Id: CAJ0EP40eBAWR5if8E6AgCavAutx_3BCRpSAPYO1-H8PNWyi5VA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-devel/bc required for kernel compile? by Grant
1 On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >>> My wife and I have identical Dell XPS 13 laptops. I have the config
3 >>> on both as close as possible. We use identical kernel config files,
4 >>> but I can compile git-sources-3.9-rc1 without installing sys-devel/bc
5 >>> and it looks like she can not. Does anyone know why this would
6 >>> happen?
7 >>>
8 >>> BC kernel/timeconst.h
9 >>> /bin/sh: bc: command not found
10 >>> make[1]: *** [kernel/timeconst.h] Error 127
11 >>> make: *** [kernel] Error 2
12 >>
13 >> It seems that sys-devel/bc is now required to build the kernel ⁽¹⁾.
14 >>
15 >> On your system, are you sure that you don't have bc installed as a
16 >> dependency of another tool ?
17 >
18 > It turns out I have /usr/bin/bc but portage didn't know about it.
19 > equery says it doesn't belong to any package. Should sys-devel/bc be
20 > in the world file or are the profiles going to add it?
21 >
22
23 File a bug; we probably need to add it as a dependency of the kernel sources.