[gentoo-dev] trying to fix pan, trying to add perl support to xchat, now neither works

[gentoo-dev] trying to fix pan, trying to add perl support to xchat, now neither works

[Gold is Heavy]

Hey gang,

As you know I had this problem with pan.  See "debugging pan" thread.  But 
let's forget about it for a second.

I got a cool script for xchat and I wanted to run it.  It turned out my xchat 
didn't have perl support compiled in (but I DO have USE perl flag set, and 
always have).  Anyway...  I figured it's time to upgrade my xchat from 1.8.2 
to 1.8.4.  First thing I did was 'emerge --clean rsync'.  I unmerge the old 
xchat and merged the new one.

Now, the new xchat gives me the SAME error as pan!!! ARRGGGGG!!!! :)  Oh my, 
the number of working apps is decreasing.  I was somewhat annoyed because I 
had a perfectly working xchat before.  Darned perl support...

Anyway, I figured, forget this.. I am merging the entire gnome-base/gnome.  
So I did, and it didn't install cleanly.  I got these errors:
----
>>> Updating mtimes...
>>> Merging gnome-base/gnome-1.4-r3 to /
!!! /var/qmail/control/ not found.  Config file management disabled for this 
directory.
!!! /opt/kde2.1/share/config/ not found.  Config file management disabled for 
this directory.
!!! /opt/kde2.2/share/config/ not found.  Config file management disabled for 
this directory.
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
>>> gnome-base/gnome-1.4-r3 merged.

 * Regenerating GNU info directory index...
 * Processed 61 info files: 1 errors; type emerge --verbose to view errors.
----

So, I type emerge --verbose and I get this:
----
root@void2 portage # emerge --verbose

 * Regenerating GNU info directory index...
install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/libgtop.info.gz'
 * Processed 61 info files; 1 errors.
----

I don't think i can do anything about this warning.  So, I remerged xchat to 
see if it's any better with gnome merged...and NOPE..same thing.  It just 
crashes instantly as soon as I start it.

Something is not right.  How can it be this difficult to get it to work?  My 
setup is pretty recent and I didn't do anything weird with it.  Also, I *did* 
follow the thread about moving Gnome apps and I did unmerge every single 
things that was mentioned in that thread prior to merging xchat, then gnome, 
then remerging xchat again.  I also checked /etc/env.d and I didn't even have 
90gnome there.  Instead I had 90kde.

Does anyone have any clue, what's up?  Any help would be appreciated.

--Leo

Re: [gentoo-dev] trying to fix pan, trying to add perl support to xchat, now neither works

[Chad Huneycutt]

Gold is Heavy wrote:

> Anyway, I figured, forget this.. I am merging the entire gnome-base/gnome.  
> So I did, and it didn't install cleanly.  I got these errors:
> ----
> 
>>>>Updating mtimes...
>>>>Merging gnome-base/gnome-1.4-r3 to /
>>>>
> !!! /var/qmail/control/ not found.  Config file management disabled for this 
> directory.
> !!! /opt/kde2.1/share/config/ not found.  Config file management disabled for 
> this directory.
> !!! /opt/kde2.2/share/config/ not found.  Config file management disabled for 
> this directory.
>>>>Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
>>>>gnome-base/gnome-1.4-r3 merged.
>>>>
> 
>  * Regenerating GNU info directory index...
>  * Processed 61 info files: 1 errors; type emerge --verbose to view errors.


The merge went fine.  That is what "gnome-base/gnome-1.4-r3 merged" 
means.  The other output is informational.  Since you weren't installing 
qmail or kde, obviously you don't care about the config file warnings. 
The info file errors need to be dealt with eventually, but they are just 
there as reminders.

-- 
Chad Huneycutt
Ph.D. Student
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~chadh

Re: [gentoo-dev] trying to fix pan, trying to add perl support to xchat, now neither works

[Joerg Krause]

On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 18:31, Chad Huneycutt wrote:

> > !!! /var/qmail/control/ not found.  Config file management disabled for this 
> > directory.
> > !!! /opt/kde2.1/share/config/ not found.  Config file management disabled for 
> > this directory.
> > !!! /opt/kde2.2/share/config/ not found.  Config file management disabled for 
> > this directory.

> The merge went fine.  That is what "gnome-base/gnome-1.4-r3 merged" 
> means.  The other output is informational.  Since you weren't installing 
> qmail or kde, obviously you don't care about the config file warnings. 
> The info file errors need to be dealt with eventually, but they are just 
> there as reminders.

You should edit the CONFIG_PROTECT line in /etc/make.globals if you
don't want to install kde or qmail.

-- 
Joerg 'quacks' Krause
JKrause@epost.de