[gentoo-amd64] amd64 (arch) specific useflags.

[gentoo-amd64] amd64 (arch) specific useflags.

[Martin Bergstrand]

I suppose that this question is slightly off topic here since it doesn't 
pertaion only to amd64 but different architectures in genereal.

However amd64 is where I'm having my problem so here goes:

How can I enable a USE flag, that is not available for amd64 for testing 
purposes?

In my case I want to experiment with the sybase/sybase-ct use flags so that I 
can build the sybase functions for PHP5. 
For some reason it has been decided that sybase doesn't run on amd64 so the 
use flags have been disabled (even though 1, there is a version of sybase ASE 
for amd64 and 2, freeTDS runs on amd64 and can connect to sybase servers 
running on different machines).
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64 (arch) specific useflags.

[Thomas Rösner]

Martin Bergstrand wrote:
> I suppose that this question is slightly off topic here since it doesn't 
> pertaion only to amd64 but different architectures in genereal.
>
> However amd64 is where I'm having my problem so here goes:
>
> How can I enable a USE flag, that is not available for amd64 for testing 
> purposes?
>
> In my case I want to experiment with the sybase/sybase-ct use flags so that I 
> can build the sybase functions for PHP5. 
> For some reason it has been decided that sybase doesn't run on amd64 so the 
> use flags have been disabled (even though 1, there is a version of sybase ASE 
> for amd64 and 2, freeTDS runs on amd64 and can connect to sybase servers 
> running on different machines).
>   

man portage[Enter]
/package.use.force[Enter]
n

Cursor up/down for scrolling ;-)

Regards,
    T.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64 (arch) specific useflags.

[Martin Bergstrand]

On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:09 am, Thomas Rösner wrote:
> Martin Bergstrand wrote:
> > I suppose that this question is slightly off topic here since it doesn't
> > pertaion only to amd64 but different architectures in genereal.
> >
> > However amd64 is where I'm having my problem so here goes:
> >
> > How can I enable a USE flag, that is not available for amd64 for testing
> > purposes?
> >
> > In my case I want to experiment with the sybase/sybase-ct use flags so
> > that I can build the sybase functions for PHP5.
> > For some reason it has been decided that sybase doesn't run on amd64 so
> > the use flags have been disabled (even though 1, there is a version of
> > sybase ASE for amd64 and 2, freeTDS runs on amd64 and can connect to
> > sybase servers running on different machines).
>
> man portage[Enter]
> /package.use.force[Enter]
> n
>
> Cursor up/down for scrolling ;-)
>
> Regards,
>     T.


Almost correct, but you got me in the right direction, thanks..

package.use.force still will not bring in a use flag that has been masked by 
the profile, so you have to use use.mask an unmask the flag locally.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64 (arch) specific useflags.

[Thomas Rösner]

Martin Bergstrand wrote:
> On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:09 am, Thomas Rösner wrote:
>   
>> Martin Bergstrand wrote:
>>     
>>> How can I enable a USE flag, that is not available for amd64 for testing
>>> purposes?
>>>       
>> man portage[Enter]
>> /package.use.force[Enter]
>> n
>>
>> Cursor up/down for scrolling ;-)
>>
>> Regards,
>>     T.
>>     
>
>
> Almost correct, but you got me in the right direction, thanks..
>
> package.use.force still will not bring in a use flag that has been masked by 
> the profile, so you have to use use.mask an unmask the flag locally.
>   

I never used it, and apparently misremembered, that's why I pointed you 
to the source I knew it from :-).

Regards,
    T.
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