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From: "W.Kenworthy" <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev, /dev/svga and gnuplot
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:59:05
Message-Id: 1123768376.7948.171.camel@bunyip
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] udev, /dev/svga and gnuplot by Paul M Foster
1 bunyip ccze-0.2.1 # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge svgalib -s
2 Searching...
3 [ Results for search key : svgalib ]
4 [ Applications found : 1 ]
5
6 * media-libs/svgalib
7 Latest version available: 1.9.21
8 Latest version installed: 1.9.19-r3
9 Size of downloaded files: 928 kB
10 Homepage: http://www.svgalib.org/
11 Description: A library for running svga graphics on the console
12 License: BSD
13
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16 On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 02:02 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
17 > Using gentoo 2005.0 and trying to install the latest gnuplot, the
18 > compile fails, and appears to be looking for a /dev/svga link.
19 > I've updated udev and svgalib to the latest. There was supposedly a fixed
20 > bug, number 92158, which talks about this. The person who repaired the
21 > bug made a change to svgalib to repair the problem, but the version
22 > repaired appears to be 1.9.21, and the latest I can get is 1.9.19.
23 >
24 > No workaround is mentioned, so my question is: how do I make a proper
25 > link at /dev/svga, so gnuplot will be happy and compile?
26 >
27 > Paul
28 >
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Re: [gentoo-user] udev, /dev/svga and gnuplot Paul M Foster <paulf@×××××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] udev, /dev/svga and gnuplot Paul M Foster <paulf@×××××××××××××.com>