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On 09/14/14 18:57, Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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>On 14/09/14 18:46, Joseph wrote: |
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>> I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver" |
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>> checking for bc... no |
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>> configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a |
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>> standard |
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>> part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your |
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>> vendor |
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>> has grown a clue. |
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>> What is "bc"? |
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>It's calculator application and it's listed as a dependency in the |
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>xscreensaver ebuild in the official Portage tree: |
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>ssuominen@null ~/gentoo-x86/x11-misc/xscreensaver $ grep sys-devel/bc |
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>*.ebuild |
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>xscreensaver-5.29.ebuild: sys-devel/bc |
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>xscreensaver-5.30.ebuild: sys-devel/bc |
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>So no way to "emerge xscreensaver" without having sys-devel/bc getting |
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>installed first. |
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The problem was sys-devel/bc. I had it installed. |
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Re-emerging sys-devel/bc solved the problem. |
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Joseph |
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