060703 Richard Fish wrote:
> On 7/3/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> FEATURES=" ... confcache ... "
> confcache has also been known to cause strange problems
> and in fact is currently package.mask'ed.

Yes, as I now notice: it was "testing" when I set it up a few days ago.
Thanks (and to the other 2 respondents) for pointing this out.

>> I still don't know what "moc" means: can you/anyone explain ?
> I forget what the acronym means (meta-object compiler?),
> but it is how Qt and thus KDE apps convert their user interface files
> into .h and .cpp sources.  The idea is that moc is run against a .ui file,
> which generates corresponding .h and .cpp sources,
> which are then compiled with gcc.  Thus in a parallel make,
> another thread could try to use the .h and .cpp files generated by moc
> before moc has finished with them,
> leading to missing files or undefined type errors.

Thanks for this partial enlightenment: I will file it away.

So having dropped Confcache, I'll try the whole exercise again.

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