On Monday 12 Dec 2011 05:32:04 Michael Mol wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> >  And no, it's not because I'm adventurous.  Background... I'm trying to
> > revive an older Dell Dimension 530 (32 bit install) with a Radeon card
> > that uses a binary blob from the radeon-ucode ebuild/download.  When
> > trying to "emerge xorg-server", it fails with the message...
> > 
> > configure: error: LLVM is required to build Gallium R300 on x86 and
> > x86_64
> > 
> >  I understand that LLVM is a "gcc-like" compiler.  What is the minimum
> > amount of stuff that I need to do?  Are there any LLVM-compatability
> > libraries for gcc that would do this build?
> 
> llvm is pulled in on most of my systems as a dependency of something
> else. It doesn't conflict with having gcc installed.
> 
> emerge sys-devel/llvm
> 
> And try again. If that fixes it, you should file a bug against the
> specific package failing to build, noting the missing explicit build
> dependency.

Unless you are using a new radeon card you may need sys-kernel/linux-firmware 
instead of radeon-ucode.
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Regards,
Mick