Re: [gentoo-user] mDNSResponder fails to compile

[Dale]

Bob Young wrote:
>
> I’m back to building a Gentoo box after my previous Gentoo box died a
> hardware death about six months ago. It’s mostly installed and
> functioning but I wanted to bring up KDE, I was surprised to find that
> the kde-meta emerge, failed 43 packages into the 300 or so that is
> kde-meta.
>
>
>
> It dies on building mDNSResponder, below is the error, if anybody is
> interested. It seems to be the same bug reported in Nov 2007:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196349 I don’t see any
> resolution posted for this bug, so it appears that mDNSResponder is
> currently broken, and it doesen’t appear that anybody IS terribly
> interested.
>
>
>
> I’m not sure what USE flag I have included that brings in
> mDNSResponder, after reading the package summary, I thought it might
> be “zeroconf,” but after adding “-zeroconf” to /etc/make.conf, “emerge
> –pn kde-meta” or “emerge –pn kde” still shows that mDNSResponder is
> going to be merged. I’ve tried adding “net-misc/mDNSResponder ~x86” to
> package keywords in hopes of getting a later version, but it appears
> there isn’t a later version.
>
>
>
> So here I am, asking for any kind of solution anybody can provide,
> since it doesn’t look like mDNSResponder is going to be fixed anytime
> soon I guess the preferred method is to remove whatever USE flag(s)
> are bringing it in if that’s possible, but I don’t know how to
> determine that information and would be grateful for some assistance.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob Young
>
> San Jose CA.
>
>
>

Have you tried this:  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196349#c4 
It may work.

If you are new, emerge =net-misc/mDNSResponder-107.5   I think that is
it anyway.

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)  
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