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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 22:06:56
Message-Id: 4AFC86FD.7080300@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 5:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Thursday 12 November 2009 23:51:32 Marcus Wanner wrote:
3 >
4 >> On 11/12/2009 4:43 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> On Thursday 12 November 2009 20:21:41 Marcus Wanner wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>> On 11/12/2009 12:56 PM, Roy Wright wrote:
9 >>>>
10 >>>>> On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
11 >>>>>
12 >>>>>> On 11/12/2009 11:55 AM, Roy Wright wrote:
13 >>>>>>
14 >>>>>>> Disable (either temporary or permanent) the "xinerama" USE flag.
15 >>>>>>>
16 >>>>>> Me or Alan?
17 >>>>>>
18 >>>>> OP
19 >>>>>
20 >>>>> As a suggestion for a work around for the compile issue. If you
21 >>>>> temporarily disable xinerama, then the build should proceed. Then if
22 >>>>> you need xinerama, enable the USE flag and build again.
23 >>>>>
24 >>>> I don't have the xinerama use flag set anywhere...I don't know what it
25 >>>> is, I don't want it, and I hopefully don't need it.
26 >>>>
27 >>>> I did put -xinerama in my use flag variable and try again, we'll see how
28 >>>> that works...btw, I have switched to xorg-server-1.7.1, since I don't
29 >>>> want to go through upgrading more than I need to.
30 >>>>
31 >>> libXinerama and xineramaproto are hard-DEPENDS on quite a few things:
32 >>>
33 >>> $ equery depends libXinerama
34 >>> * Searching for libXinerama ...
35 >>> app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.3.185404 (x11-libs/libXinerama)
36 >>> app-office/openoffice-3.1.1 (x11-libs/libXinerama)
37 >>>
38 >>>
39 >>> $ equery depends xineramaproto
40 >>> * Searching for xineramaproto ...
41 >>> app-office/openoffice-3.1.1 (x11-proto/xineramaproto)
42 >>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.1 (>=x11-proto/xineramaproto-1.1.3)
43 >>> x11-libs/libXinerama-1.1 (>=x11-proto/xineramaproto-1.2)
44 >>>
45 >> I'm really sorry for my noobishness, but could you explain exectly what
46 >> "proto" means in this context and how it applies to me?
47 >>
48 >
49 > Xorg used to be one ginormous complicated package. It is now a ginormous
50 > complicated collection of small packages, each one simple.
51 >
52 > This is supposed to make someone's life easier. In reality it moves the
53 > complexity from point A to point B, where you still have to deal with it :-)
54 >
55 > The -proto packages are the protocol header files. They tell the compiler how
56 > to build other packages that use those protocols. They are separate because
57 > Ubuntu users don't need them - they don't compile stuff. You do, so you need
58 > them, and the Xorg ebuilds pull them in.
59 >
60 >
61 Thank you. Do those need to be recompiled when something depending on
62 them is?
63
64 Marcus

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