Tag Archives: emerge

Circular Dependency in Gentoo Portage Tree

Posted on November 3, 2004 by Jason Mock

This one was definitely interesting.  I have both openldap and sasl support enabled via my ‘use flags’.   This resulted in the emerging of OpenLDAP and Cyrus-SASL.  OpenLDAP would fail to build because it couldn’t locate Cyrus-SASL, and Cyrus-SASL’s e-build reports OpenLDAP … Continue reading →

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Laptop Update

Posted on May 17, 2004 by Jason Mock

Once again, I’ve decided to do a Gentoo system update.   To simplify things I went ahead and allowed it to downgrade back to Gnome 2.4.x since they STILL haven’t gotten portage up to version 2.6.  I ran emerge -uD world … Continue reading →

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Gentoo: Openmotif Building Errors

Posted on April 30, 2004 by Jason Mock

Just ran into an issue on multiple systems that’s worth noting.  I’ve been unable to build openmotif, because it eventually produces the following error: make clean does not exist.  It seems as though openmotif has an issue with building with … Continue reading →

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Bootsplash, DISTCC, and a New Server

Posted on April 27, 2004 by Jason Mock

Today I started work on my new laptop, and as always I took this opportunity to learn and teach myself something new.  I have finally mastered the genkernel command and I am now using it for all of my kernel … Continue reading →

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Evolution 1.4.5 Print Issue in Gentoo

Posted on February 4, 2004 by Jason Mock

After updating my entire system, I’m continuing to see evolution segfault whenever I attempt to print.  I think my next try might be to re-emerge libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui and evolution.  At this point, anything is worth trying.  Off to the forums … Continue reading →

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GCC+GLIBC Issues Once Again

Posted on January 30, 2004 by Jason Mock

You would think I would learn. I have found through my experience with Gentoo that running emerge -u world is not as straight forward as they want you to think.  I have once again ran into issues where programs suddenly … Continue reading →

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Gentoo Linux Updates

Posted on January 28, 2004 by Jason Mock

Well, tonight I’ve started my updates on my laptop but have run into a couple of issues to note.  emerge -puD gnome introduced a new dependency on madplay. The emerge of madplay failed twice due to ldconfig errors, which resulted … Continue reading →

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