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

[Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com>]

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
> >