Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wine

[Dale <dalek1967@bellsouth.net>]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 13 March 2008, Dale wrote:
>   
>> Robert Stockdale IV wrote:
>>     
>>> Well I got it compiling. However it seems to die with errors with
>>> the USE flag and FEATURES. It also will not take the multilib use
>>> flag. I use the -uDNav option on emerge and multilib is shown as
>>> (-multilib). How can I get it to show multilib* instead of
>>> (-multilib). Thank you. Bob
>>>       
>> You should add multilib to your make.conf file USE flags.  If it is
>> not a global need, put it in package.use.
>>
>> Question, are you new to Gentoo?  If you are, maybe we need to go
>> more into detail here.
>>     
>
>
> I think he is new to Gentoo Dale, he seems to be making the kinda 
> elementary mistakes you'd expect from someone suffering from 
> information overload after trying to grasp the install docs
>
> Robert, knowing the workings of portage is crucial to a satisfactory 
> Gentoo. There isn't a simple way through this, it's just a lot of good 
> old RTFM (but we've all done it).
>
> At a minimum you should read everything linked from here several times:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml
>
> and read these man pages many many times:
>
> man emerge
> man ebuild
> man 5 ebuild
> man 5 make.conf
> man 5 portage
>
> The answers to all your questions in this thread are in those references
>
>   

I think so too.  He posted that he used it a few years ago which may be 
worse than starting out completely new.  I noticed he was putting a USE 
and FEATURES variable on the command line instead of make.conf and 
friends.  It sort of tipped me off that he is familiar with Linux but 
new to Gentoo.

We'll get him going tho.   ;-) 

Dale

:-)  :-) 
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