[gentoo-user] udev, /dev/svga and gnuplot

[gentoo-user] udev, /dev/svga and gnuplot

[Paul M Foster]

Using gentoo 2005.0 and trying to install the latest gnuplot, the 
compile fails, and appears to be looking for a /dev/svga link. 
I've updated udev and svgalib to the latest. There was supposedly a fixed 
bug, number 92158, which talks about this. The person who repaired the 
bug made a change to svgalib to repair the problem, but the version 
repaired appears to be 1.9.21, and the latest I can get is 1.9.19.

No workaround is mentioned, so my question is: how do I make a proper 
link at /dev/svga, so gnuplot will be happy and compile?

Paul

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[gentoo-user] udev, /dev/svga and gnuplot

[Paul M Foster]

Using gentoo 2005.0 and trying to install the latest gnuplot, the 
compile fails, and appears to be looking for a /dev/svga link. 
I've updated udev and svgalib to the latest. There was supposedly a fixed 
bug, number 92158, which talks about this. The person who repaired the 
bug made a change to svgalib to repair the problem, but the version 
repaired appears to be 1.9.21, and the latest I can get is 1.9.19.

No workaround is mentioned, so my question is: how do I make a proper 
link at /dev/svga, so gnuplot will be happy and compile?

Paul
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Re: [gentoo-user] udev, /dev/svga and gnuplot

[W.Kenworthy]

bunyip ccze-0.2.1 # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge svgalib -s
Searching...
[ Results for search key : svgalib ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  media-libs/svgalib
      Latest version available: 1.9.21
      Latest version installed: 1.9.19-r3
      Size of downloaded files: 928 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.svgalib.org/
      Description: A library for running svga graphics on the console
      License:     BSD



On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 02:02 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> Using gentoo 2005.0 and trying to install the latest gnuplot, the 
> compile fails, and appears to be looking for a /dev/svga link. 
> I've updated udev and svgalib to the latest. There was supposedly a fixed 
> bug, number 92158, which talks about this. The person who repaired the 
> bug made a change to svgalib to repair the problem, but the version 
> repaired appears to be 1.9.21, and the latest I can get is 1.9.19.
> 
> No workaround is mentioned, so my question is: how do I make a proper 
> link at /dev/svga, so gnuplot will be happy and compile?
> 
> Paul
> 

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Re: [gentoo-user] udev, /dev/svga and gnuplot

[Paul M Foster]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:52:56PM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:

> bunyip ccze-0.2.1 # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge svgalib -s
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : svgalib ]
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
> 
> *  media-libs/svgalib
>       Latest version available: 1.9.21
>       Latest version installed: 1.9.19-r3
>       Size of downloaded files: 928 kB
>       Homepage:    http://www.svgalib.org/
>       Description: A library for running svga graphics on the console
>       License:     BSD

When I ran emerge --search media-libs/svgalib, I don't get that version. 
Being new to gentoo, could you explain why the 1.9.21 version shows up 
when you do it this way? Is it because of the "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS" 
assignment, and if so, why?

Paul

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Re: [gentoo-user] udev, /dev/svga and gnuplot

[Paul M Foster]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:52:56PM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:

> bunyip ccze-0.2.1 # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge svgalib -s
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : svgalib ]
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
> 
> *  media-libs/svgalib
>       Latest version available: 1.9.21
>       Latest version installed: 1.9.19-r3
>       Size of downloaded files: 928 kB
>       Homepage:    http://www.svgalib.org/
>       Description: A library for running svga graphics on the console
>       License:     BSD
> 

Okay, this package, installed, does not solve the problem. So again, how 
do I create a _working_ link to /dev/svga? (Not MAKEDEV-- it doesn't 
know how to make this link.)

Paul


> 
> 
> On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 02:02 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > Using gentoo 2005.0 and trying to install the latest gnuplot, the
> > compile fails, and appears to be looking for a /dev/svga link.
> > I've updated udev and svgalib to the latest. There was supposedly a fixed
> > bug, number 92158, which talks about this. The person who repaired the
> > bug made a change to svgalib to repair the problem, but the version
> > repaired appears to be 1.9.21, and the latest I can get is 1.9.19.
> >
> > No workaround is mentioned, so my question is: how do I make a proper
> > link at /dev/svga, so gnuplot will be happy and compile?
> >
> > Paul
> >
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] udev, /dev/svga and gnuplot

[Holly Bostick]

Paul M Foster schreef:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:52:56PM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> 
> 
>>bunyip ccze-0.2.1 # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge svgalib -s
>>Searching...
>>[ Results for search key : svgalib ]
>>[ Applications found : 1 ]
>>
>>*  media-libs/svgalib
>>      Latest version available: 1.9.21
>>      Latest version installed: 1.9.19-r3
>>      Size of downloaded files: 928 kB
>>      Homepage:    http://www.svgalib.org/
>>      Description: A library for running svga graphics on the console
>>      License:     BSD
> 
> 
> When I ran emerge --search media-libs/svgalib, I don't get that version. 
> Being new to gentoo, could you explain why the 1.9.21 version shows up 
> when you do it this way? Is it because of the "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS" 
> assignment, and if so, why?

Yes, it is. The 1.9.21 version is marked unstable ("~arch", the key
issue being the ~ before the architecture name), and apparently you have
only authorized Portage (in /etc/make.conf) to accept/show stable
packages (ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="arch", as opposed to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~arch").

So the unstable packages generally are invisible to you, unless you
override the current ACCEPT_KEYWORDS setting either globally (in
/etc/make.conf), or for the specific package (in
/etc/portage/package.keywords), or use another portage search tool (such
as 'eix', which shows you all the versions in Portage, whether or not
Portage will actually emerge them for you because your settings block them).

Paul M Foster also schreef:

> Using gentoo 2005.0 and trying to install the latest gnuplot, the 
> compile fails, and appears to be looking for a /dev/svga link. 
> I've updated udev and svgalib to the latest. There was supposedly a fixed 
> bug, number 92158, which talks about this. The person who repaired the 
> bug made a change to svgalib to repair the problem

According to Bugzilla,

> the check now installs rules.d for udev-045 and better

What version of udev are you using?

Holly
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