Re: [gentoo-alt] Re: simple question about installing chromium browser for use in debian OS using gentoo prefix..

[Benda Xu <heroxbd@gentoo.org>]

Hi Michael,

How was this project going?  Have you succeeded in compiling chromium in
Gentoo Prefix?

Benda

Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> writes:

> Many thanks for the reply.
>
> I went in the $EPREFIX/var/lib/repos/gentoo directory to look for the
> nghttp2 ebuild......
>
> The ebuild lives here on my machine:
>
> mikef@fart:~/gentoo/usr/portage/net-libs/nghttp2
>
> I found the nghttp2-1.39.1.ebuild file.
>
> Toward the end of the file there is a bit of code with the myeconfargs
> variable (or whatever it is) present in it:
>
> multilib_src_configure() {
>         local myeconfargs=(
>                 --disable-examples
>                 --disable-failmalloc
>                 --disable-python-bindings
>                 --disable-werror
>                 --without-cython
>                 $(use_enable cxx asio-lib)
>                 $(use_enable debug)
>                 $(multilib_native_use_enable hpack-tools)
>                 $(use_enable static-libs static)
>                 $(use_enable threads)
>                 $(multilib_native_use_enable utils app)
>                 $(multilib_native_use_with jemalloc)
>                 $(multilib_native_use_with xml libxml2)
>         )
>         ECONF_SOURCE="${S}" econf "${myeconfargs[@]}"
> }
>
> multilib_src_install_all() {
>         if ! use static-libs ; then
>                 find "${ED}"/usr -name '*.la' -delete || die
>         fi
> }
> mikef@fart:~/gentoo/usr/portage/net-libs/nghttp2$
>
> ***************************************
> Presumably if I would edit this file with e.g. emacs then I could add
> --with-boost="${EPREFIX}"/usr
>
> to the file after the two instances of myeconfargs (or do I only do it
> once in the ECONF_SOURCE line?).....
>
> Also would I add --with-boost="${EPREFIX}"/usr OR
> --with-boost=/home/mikef/gentoo/usr
> ie the actual path on my machine here?
>
> I did not realise the ebuilds were editable files that lived in
> directories in the install itself.
> I thought portage used them for the compilations but they were off
> limits to users like me and only assembled
> by developers and converted to a form that was not easily accessible etc.....
>
>
> If this succeeds and chromium compiles, could I use the make.conf file
> video card entries etc from my conventional
> gentoo install I have here on this machine to modify the gentoo prefix
> make.conf file to allow me to emerge and
> install xorg-server ie  x11-base/xorg-server in gentoo prefix and then
> run startx etc?
>
> I would then  install i3 and dmenu etc and then run chromium.......
>
> I think this is better than using e.g. bedrock linux etc.  Gentoo and
> debian are both good.  If you combine them
> then that would be useful I think.
>
> Comments appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> MF
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 09:50, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> First, I think emerging something like chromium pulls in a lot of heavy
>> dependencies, which often haven't received any Prefix attention, or were
>> simply not kept up-to-date.  I'm not aware if anyone is using Prefix as
>> their desktop env, I once did so (years ago) but it's tedious at times.
>>
>> Now, with that "warning" in mind, it seems that for
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/647740
>> adding --with-boost="${EPREFIX}"/usr might have the right effect.  Did
>> you try modifying the ebuild adding that to myeconfargs?
>>
>> It's in your portage tree (probably still in $EPREFIX/usr/portage, more
>> recent location in $EPREFIX/var/lib/repos/gentoo) in
>> net-libs/nghttp2/nghttp2-1.39.1.ebuild.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Fabian
>>
>> On 23-06-2019 11:03:44 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
>> > PS
>> >