[gentoo-amd64] Re: type1 xorg module missing

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> posted
d257c3560806140807m6d5e3336vb4cd73bcd6fb9ad4@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on  Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:07:28 +0000:

> 2008/6/14 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>:
> 
>> Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> posted
>> d257c3560806140630p28401537sd6ff45096a295f37@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
>> below, on  Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:30:44 +0000:
>>
>> > i've gone with xorg-server--9999 and now i cannot find anymore the
>> > type1 extension. does anyone know to which package it belongs?!
>> > equery belongs doesn't help. is there some other way to find the
>> > package that provides a specific file?!
>>
>> $equery b libtype1.so
>> [ Searching for file(s) libtype1.so in *... ]
>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.0.90-r3
>> (/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/fonts/libtype1.so)
>> $
>>
> hmmm..... this is a little strange.... it seems like my xorg-server
> hasn't compiled it but nevertheless tries to load it at startup by
> default. i need to investigate a little what's the reason of this.

There doesn't appear to be a USE flag for it, so it's probably a hard-
wired part of the xorg-server build.  Only for some reason, your build 
for that library failed, and obviously, it's a non-fatal failure.

It's also possible you hit one of the bleeding edges of running a live 
sources ebuild.  Perhaps that's being split off into a separate package, 
but the dependencies aren't there yet, or there's a new USE flag I don't 
see in the 1.4.90-r3 version.

> ps. about the kernel build scripts you said you'd share are there any
> news?!

Thanks for the reminder.  I've been putting off upgrading to the latest 
kernel rc until I get the scripts spruced up a bit, after which the 
upgrade run would be the test to make sure that at least for here, I had 
it right.

The problem is that right now, there's some hard-coded paths and the 
like, that I'll need to change, "variablizing" them, with the settings 
preferably moved to a conf file, but at least all moved to the top of the 
scripts, where they're easy to see and set.

Looks like I might get some time 2nite to work on it, as it seems to have 
been a fairly slow newsgroups/mailinglists and news day.

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