From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA60313838B for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:15:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90712E091A; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:15:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail101c7.megamailservers.com (mail717.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.27]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 585A4E08E6 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:15:53 +0000 (UTC) X-POP-User: admin@sys-concept.com X-VIP: 69.49.109.100 Received: from syscon7.localdomain (S01060050da7ae68c.ed.shawcable.net [68.149.90.13]) by mail101c7.megamailservers.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id s8EGFo2h027311 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 12:15:52 -0400 Received: by syscon7.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 03923200280; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 10:16:09 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 10:16:09 -0600 From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] xscreensaver - error missing "bc" Message-ID: <20140914161609.GE13628@syscon7> References: <20140914154633.GA26539@syscon2> <5415BACE.6060905@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5415BACE.6060905@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020201.5415BF38.006C,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.1 cv=bYZSDo/B c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:117 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:17 a=SDcUNfBxAAAA:8 a=BDKbP5mgAAAA:8 a=Unq3plm5DvEA:10 a=M1kyBYkWWGkA:10 a=ZMWlUmba0egA:10 a=7Yyncw8ZvY0A:10 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=f_vqvVLlT2b23hkI5UYA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 X-Origin-Country: CA X-Archives-Salt: b7fe8012-acf9-46e6-87e1-775962b723b9 X-Archives-Hash: da0679c537852684406e8a18556d6860 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