From: Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 10:16:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140914161609.GE13628@syscon7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5415BACE.6060905@gentoo.org>
On 09/14/14 18:57, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>
>On 14/09/14 18:46, Joseph wrote:
>> I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver"
>>
>> checking for bc... no
>>
>> configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a
>> standard
>> part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your
>> vendor
>> has grown a clue.
>>
>> What is "bc"?
>>
>
>It's calculator application and it's listed as a dependency in the
>xscreensaver ebuild in the official Portage tree:
>
>ssuominen@null ~/gentoo-x86/x11-misc/xscreensaver $ grep sys-devel/bc
>*.ebuild
>xscreensaver-5.29.ebuild: sys-devel/bc
>xscreensaver-5.30.ebuild: sys-devel/bc
>
>So no way to "emerge xscreensaver" without having sys-devel/bc getting
>installed first.
The problem was sys-devel/bc. I had it installed.
Re-emerging sys-devel/bc solved the problem.
--
Joseph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-14 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-14 15:46 [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc" Joseph
2014-09-14 15:53 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-14 15:56 ` Ivan Viso Altamirano
2014-09-14 16:17 ` Mick
2014-09-14 16:39 ` Ivan Viso Altamirano
2014-09-14 15:57 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-09-14 16:16 ` Joseph [this message]
2014-09-14 17:43 ` [gentoo-user][SOLVED] " Mick
2014-09-14 17:58 ` Joseph
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