Rob wrote: > The first thing I am not certain of is my recompilation of Xorg using > the suggested USE flags. I put the new USE flags in /etc/make.conf and > then issued the command: "emerge -N xorg-x11". Will that work, or do I > have to do the emerge with "emerge --newuse --enable bitmap-fonts > truetype-fonts type1-fonts" explicitely? Perhaps my understanding of > USE flags is wrong for recompiling packages.
emerge has no "--enable" option (you can see this in "man emerge"), and you don't need the -N option if you re-emerge a single package. If you want to set USE flags, edit /etc/make.conf (search for USE there). To see the USE flags for the xorg-x11 package, try emerge -av xorg-x11 (look in the man page to find out what the -a and -v options mean; after all it could be possible that I tell you something wrong). The output of that command is (here): | These are the packages that I would merge, in order: | | Calculating dependencies ...done! | [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 -3dfx +3dnow +bitmap-fonts -cjk | -debug -dlloader -dmx +doc -font-server -insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal | +mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk -sse -static +truetype-fonts | +type1-fonts (-uclibc) +xprint* +xv 0 kB | | Total size of downloads: 0 kB | | Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] The USE flags prepended with a "+" are enabled, the ones starting with "-" are disabled, the "*" after "+xprint" means that it's a changed USE flag since the last emerge of xorg-x11. bitmap-fonts, truetype-fonts and type1-fonts are all enabled here, and I don't have them listed in my USE flags in /etc/make.conf. They are the default (so some people can disable them if they want to). > I wonder about this, because I enable the xtt module in my > /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but I get an error message that the xtt module > cannot be found. Using slocate I confirmed that xtt is nowhere to be found. I don't know whether xorg has an "xtt" module. My xorg.conf has "freetype" and "type1", but no "xtt". Regards... Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list