[gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

[gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

[Fei Liu]

Hello, I was going to install 'webalizer' (apache monitoring software) 
by 'emerge -kv webalizer', I got the following error:

!!! ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r12 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1555:   Called dyn_setup
  ebuild.sh, line 668:   Called pkg_setup
  webalizer-2.01.10-r12.ebuild, line 45:   Called die

!!! recompile gd with USE="png"
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call 
stack if relevant.

I tried to do 'USE="png" emerge -update gd', and I got a scary list of 
package ebuilds:
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/gd-2.0.33  USE="png*"
[ebuild  N    ]  media-libs/freetype-2.1.10-r2
[ebuild  N    ]  media-libs/libpng-1.2.12
[ebuild  N    ]  sys-devel/libtool-1.5.22
....skipped

What should I do in this case? How exactly should I update my 'gd' 
package? Sorry, I am still new to the emerge system.

Thanks,
Fei
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Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

[Jakob Buchgraber]

Fei Liu wrote:
> Hello, I was going to install 'webalizer' (apache monitoring software) 
> by 'emerge -kv webalizer', I got the following error:
>
> !!! ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r12 failed.
> Call stack:
>  ebuild.sh, line 1555:   Called dyn_setup
>  ebuild.sh, line 668:   Called pkg_setup
>  webalizer-2.01.10-r12.ebuild, line 45:   Called die
>
> !!! recompile gd with USE="png"
> !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call 
> stack if relevant.
>
> I tried to do 'USE="png" emerge -update gd', and I got a scary list of 
> package ebuilds:
> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/gd-2.0.33  USE="png*"
> [ebuild  N    ]  media-libs/freetype-2.1.10-r2
> [ebuild  N    ]  media-libs/libpng-1.2.12
> [ebuild  N    ]  sys-devel/libtool-1.5.22
> ....skipped
>
> What should I do in this case? How exactly should I update my 'gd' 
> package? Sorry, I am still new to the emerge system.
>
> Thanks,
> Fei
You should add "png" to /etc/make.conf or /etc/portage/package.use and 
then reemerge gd lib (emerge --newuse gd).

Cheers,
Jay
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Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

[Fei Liu]

Fei Liu wrote:
> Hello, I was going to install 'webalizer' (apache monitoring software) 
> by 'emerge -kv webalizer', I got the following error:
>
> !!! ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r12 failed.
> Call stack:
>  ebuild.sh, line 1555:   Called dyn_setup
>  ebuild.sh, line 668:   Called pkg_setup
>  webalizer-2.01.10-r12.ebuild, line 45:   Called die
>
> !!! recompile gd with USE="png"
> !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call 
> stack if relevant.
>
> I tried to do 'USE="png" emerge -update gd', and I got a scary list of 
> package ebuilds:
> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/gd-2.0.33  USE="png*"
> [ebuild  N    ]  media-libs/freetype-2.1.10-r2
> [ebuild  N    ]  media-libs/libpng-1.2.12
> [ebuild  N    ]  sys-devel/libtool-1.5.22
> ....skipped
>
> What should I do in this case? How exactly should I update my 'gd' 
> package? Sorry, I am still new to the emerge system.
>
> Thanks,
> Fei
Hello, I am just reporting back, I have this fixed (by trying with -p flag):

USE="png jpeg" emerge -vkp gd

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-libs/gd-2.0.33  USE="jpeg* png* truetype 
-fontconfig -xpm" 0 kB


One thing I am curious is, it seems a lot of source code packages are 
cached on my local machine, what should I do to remove them from my hard 
drive?

Fei
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Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

[Fei Liu]

Jakob Buchgraber wrote:
> Fei Liu wrote:
>> Hello, I was going to install 'webalizer' (apache monitoring 
>> software) by 'emerge -kv webalizer', I got the following error:
>>
>> !!! ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r12 failed.
>> Call stack:
>>  ebuild.sh, line 1555:   Called dyn_setup
>>  ebuild.sh, line 668:   Called pkg_setup
>>  webalizer-2.01.10-r12.ebuild, line 45:   Called die
>>
>> !!! recompile gd with USE="png"
>> !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call 
>> stack if relevant.
>>
>> I tried to do 'USE="png" emerge -update gd', and I got a scary list 
>> of package ebuilds:
>> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/gd-2.0.33  USE="png*"
>> [ebuild  N    ]  media-libs/freetype-2.1.10-r2
>> [ebuild  N    ]  media-libs/libpng-1.2.12
>> [ebuild  N    ]  sys-devel/libtool-1.5.22
>> ....skipped
>>
>> What should I do in this case? How exactly should I update my 'gd' 
>> package? Sorry, I am still new to the emerge system.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Fei
> You should add "png" to /etc/make.conf or /etc/portage/package.use and 
> then reemerge gd lib (emerge --newuse gd).
>
> Cheers,
> Jay
Hi Jay, thank you, please see my other thread, I used 'USE="png" emerge 
-kv gd' to fix this problem. But it's good to learn the --newuse flag. 
Do you know what I should do to remove all the cached source code packages?

Fei
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Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

[Jakob Buchgraber]

Fei Liu wrote:
> Fei Liu wrote:
>> Hello, I was going to install 'webalizer' (apache monitoring 
>> software) by 'emerge -kv webalizer', I got the following error:
>>
>> !!! ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r12 failed.
>> Call stack:
>>  ebuild.sh, line 1555:   Called dyn_setup
>>  ebuild.sh, line 668:   Called pkg_setup
>>  webalizer-2.01.10-r12.ebuild, line 45:   Called die
>>
>> !!! recompile gd with USE="png"
>> !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call 
>> stack if relevant.
>>
>> I tried to do 'USE="png" emerge -update gd', and I got a scary list 
>> of package ebuilds:
>> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/gd-2.0.33  USE="png*"
>> [ebuild  N    ]  media-libs/freetype-2.1.10-r2
>> [ebuild  N    ]  media-libs/libpng-1.2.12
>> [ebuild  N    ]  sys-devel/libtool-1.5.22
>> ....skipped
>>
>> What should I do in this case? How exactly should I update my 'gd' 
>> package? Sorry, I am still new to the emerge system.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Fei
> Hello, I am just reporting back, I have this fixed (by trying with -p 
> flag):
>
> USE="png jpeg" emerge -vkp gd
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] media-libs/gd-2.0.33  USE="jpeg* png* truetype 
> -fontconfig -xpm" 0 kB
>
>
> One thing I am curious is, it seems a lot of source code packages are 
> cached on my local machine, what should I do to remove them from my 
> hard drive?
>
> Fei
This "cached packages" as you call them are termed distfiles 
(distfiles.gentoo.org) and located in /usr/portage/distfiles because if 
you want to re-emerge a package you won't need to download it again. If 
you run out of diskspace, just mount /usr/portage/distfiles on another 
partition or harddisk.

Best Regards Jay
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Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

[Jakob Buchgraber]

Fei Liu wrote:
> Jakob Buchgraber wrote:
>> Fei Liu wrote:
>>> Hello, I was going to install 'webalizer' (apache monitoring 
>>> software) by 'emerge -kv webalizer', I got the following error:
>>>
>>> !!! ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r12 failed.
>>> Call stack:
>>>  ebuild.sh, line 1555:   Called dyn_setup
>>>  ebuild.sh, line 668:   Called pkg_setup
>>>  webalizer-2.01.10-r12.ebuild, line 45:   Called die
>>>
>>> !!! recompile gd with USE="png"
>>> !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call 
>>> stack if relevant.
>>>
>>> I tried to do 'USE="png" emerge -update gd', and I got a scary list 
>>> of package ebuilds:
>>> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/gd-2.0.33  USE="png*"
>>> [ebuild  N    ]  media-libs/freetype-2.1.10-r2
>>> [ebuild  N    ]  media-libs/libpng-1.2.12
>>> [ebuild  N    ]  sys-devel/libtool-1.5.22
>>> ....skipped
>>>
>>> What should I do in this case? How exactly should I update my 'gd' 
>>> package? Sorry, I am still new to the emerge system.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Fei
>> You should add "png" to /etc/make.conf or /etc/portage/package.use 
>> and then reemerge gd lib (emerge --newuse gd).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jay
> Hi Jay, thank you, please see my other thread, I used 'USE="png" 
> emerge -kv gd' to fix this problem. But it's good to learn the 
> --newuse flag. Do you know what I should do to remove all the cached 
> source code packages?
>
> Fei
Hey!

See my e-mail or "Boyed Stephen Smith Jr.'s mail". Don't use 
USE="blabla" emerge package or ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="..", because these 
settings are just temporary and when will only be applied to this one 
emerge.

I haven't used -k (--usepkg) yet however the man page tells me that -k 
means, that precompiled packages should be used. So your USE flag does 
not take any effect.

Btw.: You shouldn't say that this problem is fixed as you just have used 
something precompiled and preconfigured. You should better digg deeper 
into emerge and USE flags. Otherwise you will never understand portage 
which is _essential_ for understanding and using Gentoo Linux. This is 
just and advice...

Best Regards Jay
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Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Friday 02 February 2007 21:29:33 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> Also, if you use the long option name you must use two dashes '--' and not
> one '-'.  You argument '-update' is equivalent to '-u -p -d -a -t -e',
> which includes (among other things) the -e (--emptytree) flag, forcing
> emerge to pretend you have no packages installed.

Haha. Nice catch!

-update == --update --pretend --debug --ask --tree --emptytree

All of those options are valid and with --debug and --emptytree that's going 
to give a scary amount of output...

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Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

[Dan Farrell]

On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:30:29 -0500
Fei Liu <feiliu@aepnetworks.com> wrote:

> One thing I am curious is, it seems a lot of source code packages are 
> cached on my local machine, what should I do to remove them from my
> hard drive?
> Fei

you can delete /usr/portage/distfiles/* if you want to; i think the
worst thing to come of it would be having to redownload the sources
for each subsequent emerge of the same software.  

Alternately, you could use an NFS share to make /usr/portage/distfiles
shared with all the computers on your network.  If you have more than
one gentoo box, that is ; )
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Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:09:44 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote:

> Alternately, you could use an NFS share to make /usr/portage/distfiles
> shared with all the computers on your network.  If you have more than
> one gentoo box, that is ; )

You don;t need to be running Gentoo on the distfiles host. It doesn't
even have to be Linux, you could point $DISTDIR to a Samba mount on a
Windows box. This is useful if you have, say, a laptop with limited disk
space running Gentoo.


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