On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:09 am, Thomas Rösner wrote: > Martin Bergstrand wrote: > > I suppose that this question is slightly off topic here since it doesn't > > pertaion only to amd64 but different architectures in genereal. > > > > However amd64 is where I'm having my problem so here goes: > > > > How can I enable a USE flag, that is not available for amd64 for testing > > purposes? > > > > In my case I want to experiment with the sybase/sybase-ct use flags so > > that I can build the sybase functions for PHP5. > > For some reason it has been decided that sybase doesn't run on amd64 so > > the use flags have been disabled (even though 1, there is a version of > > sybase ASE for amd64 and 2, freeTDS runs on amd64 and can connect to > > sybase servers running on different machines). > > man portage[Enter] > /package.use.force[Enter] > n > > Cursor up/down for scrolling ;-) > > Regards, > T.
Almost correct, but you got me in the right direction, thanks.. package.use.force still will not bring in a use flag that has been masked by the profile, so you have to use use.mask an unmask the flag locally. -- [email protected] mailing list
