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From: Marcus Wanner <marcusw@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:51:55
Message-Id: 4AFC8364.2050500@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade) by Alan McKinnon
1 On 11/12/2009 4:43 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Thursday 12 November 2009 20:21:41 Marcus Wanner wrote:
3 >
4 >> On 11/12/2009 12:56 PM, Roy Wright wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>> On 11/12/2009 11:55 AM, Roy Wright wrote:
9 >>>>
10 >>>>> Disable (either temporary or permanent) the "xinerama" USE flag.
11 >>>>>
12 >>>> Me or Alan?
13 >>>>
14 >>> OP
15 >>>
16 >>> As a suggestion for a work around for the compile issue. If you
17 >>> temporarily disable xinerama, then the build should proceed. Then if
18 >>> you need xinerama, enable the USE flag and build again.
19 >>>
20 >> I don't have the xinerama use flag set anywhere...I don't know what it
21 >> is, I don't want it, and I hopefully don't need it.
22 >>
23 >> I did put -xinerama in my use flag variable and try again, we'll see how
24 >> that works...btw, I have switched to xorg-server-1.7.1, since I don't
25 >> want to go through upgrading more than I need to.
26 >>
27 >
28 > libXinerama and xineramaproto are hard-DEPENDS on quite a few things:
29 >
30 > $ equery depends libXinerama
31 > * Searching for libXinerama ...
32 > app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.3.185404 (x11-libs/libXinerama)
33 > app-office/openoffice-3.1.1 (x11-libs/libXinerama)
34 >
35 >
36 > $ equery depends xineramaproto
37 > * Searching for xineramaproto ...
38 > app-office/openoffice-3.1.1 (x11-proto/xineramaproto)
39 > x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.1 (>=x11-proto/xineramaproto-1.1.3)
40 > x11-libs/libXinerama-1.1 (>=x11-proto/xineramaproto-1.2)
41 >
42 I'm really sorry for my noobishness, but could you explain exectly what
43 "proto" means in this context and how it applies to me?
44
45 Marcus

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5 build errors (~x86 upgrade) Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>