[gentoo-user] Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

[gentoo-user] Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

[Harry Putnam]

I've hit this problem before but never did have to get it sorted
because the package I was after was actually installed already.

I'm installing amaya by hand since the ebuild fails and its pretty old
anyway. 

I need Mesa libs onboard  (its not mandatory ) so looking at partage
for mesa libs I find:
 media-libs/mesa [ Masked ]
      Latest version available: 6.4.2-r1
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of downloaded files: 8,534 kB
      Homepage:    http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/
      Description: OpenGL-like graphic library for Linux
      License:     LGPL-2

Ok, so far so good.  I'm running iwth ~x86 enabled in /etc/make.conf
so this should work.. I'm thinking.... but it doesn't

root # emerge -vp  media-libs/mesa
  These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
  Calculating dependencies   
  !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "media-libs/mesa" have been masked.
    !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
      your request:
  - media-libs/mesa-6.4.2-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
  # Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org> (07 Aug 2005)
  # Modularized X, upstream release candidates

And the advice:
  For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
  page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.


Ok, Its the only ebuild available ....
and following that advice for ever will not explain how to get aroud
this circular masking problem.

Its probably simple enough but not apparent to me.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

[Mike Williams]

On Friday 10 March 2006 18:10, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Ok, Its the only ebuild available ....
> and following that advice for ever will not explain how to get aroud
> this circular masking problem.

It's not a circular masking problem, mesa is package.mask'd, as in 
proper-unstable-breaks-the-tree-broken masked.

> Its probably simple enough but not apparent to me.

You could add media-libs/mesa to /etc/portage/package.unmask, but that will 
lead you into the (also package.mask'd) modularized X.
Modularized X is obviously not ready for unstable, and the version of mesa in 
the tree depends on that modularized version to work.

I don't think you are going to get mesa installed without a fair bit of 
trouble.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

[Benno Schulenberg]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> I need Mesa libs onboard  (its not mandatory ) so looking at
> partage for mesa libs I find:
>  media-libs/mesa [ Masked ]
>       Latest version available: 6.4.2-r1
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]

If you have xorg-6.8.2 installed, then you already have Mesa on 
board:

  equery files xorg-x11 | grep -i mesa

Benno
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[gentoo-user] Re: Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

[Harry Putnam]

Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> writes:

> equery files xorg-x11 | grep -i mesa

Yes of course, what I need is I guess the developer set with include
files. 

I've downloaded and installed most of it not they look like:

ls -F /usr/local/include/
  GL/  GLES/

/usr/local/include/GL:
GLwDrawA.h    fxmesa.h     glu_mangle.h  mglmesa.h        xmesa.h
GLwDrawAP.h   ggimesa.h    glut.h        osmesa.h         xmesa_x.h
GLwMDrawA.h   gl.h         glutf90.h     svgamesa.h       xmesa_xf86.h
GLwMDrawAP.h  gl_mangle.h  glx.h         uglglutshapes.h
amesa.h       glext.h      glx_mangle.h  uglmesa.h
directfbgl.h  glfbdev.h    glxext.h      vms_x_fix.h
dmesa.h       glu.h        mesa_wgl.h    wmesa.h


This stuff is what Amaya wants to compile... but I still  haven't got
it all pieced together... Thats why I wanted to emerge it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Friday 10 March 2006 18:22, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote 
about '[gentoo-user]  Re: Back in the soup [circular mask problem]':
> Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> writes:
> > equery files xorg-x11 | grep -i mesa
>
> Yes of course, what I need is I guess the developer set with include
> files.

Does xorg-x11 not have a SDK USE flag?

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