From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ / Cairo / pdf-flag mutual build problem.
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:14:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061230041448.GA16591@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612291413080.20138@iabervon.org>
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 02:23:08PM -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote
> > Calculating dependencies... done!
> > [ebuild R ] x11-libs/cairo-1.2.4 USE="X png -directfb -doc -glitz
> > -svg (-pdf%)" 0 kB
> >
> > Oops... note the "(-pdf%)". This option is simply not allowed for
> > Cairo on my system. I threw in "--skipfirst" into the emerge command,
> > and it seems to be working so far. But back to my main problem... how
> > do I reconcile gtk+ and Cairo?
>
> Actually, the cairo ebuild now unconditionally enables pdf support; the
> USE flag is not allowed because it is no longer possible to disable pdf
> support. (Portage doesn't have a way to express the differences between
> something not being a USE flag because it is unsupported and because it is
> automatic, but if you look in the ebuild, you'll find that it's using
> "--enable-pdf")
>
> So gtk+ should be happy once you re-emerge cairo even without changing use
> flags.
So why does the flag show up at all when I do an "emerge -pv"?
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-25 4:14 [gentoo-user] gtk+ / Cairo / pdf-flag mutual build problem Walter Dnes
2006-12-27 11:35 ` Mike Myers
2006-12-27 16:57 ` Dan
2006-12-29 19:23 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-12-30 4:14 ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2006-12-30 4:21 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-12-31 4:33 ` Walter Dnes
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