[gentoo-user] depend/use problet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allo all, Since installing mythtv on my desktop I have come across a possibly fairly major defect with portage. The mythtv ebuild depends on, among other things, QT (should also depend on mysql, but that's another matter). If the ebuild did depend on mysql *before* QT on a system without QT already installed I believe there would be no problem. My desktop already had QT installed, and no mysql. So QT didn't have mysql support, which mythbackend and some of the other tools it seems require. I imagine some of you are now seeing the problem. Obviously QT needs to have mysql installed before it's built to enable it's support, simply adding a dependancy to mysql before QT (in mythtv for example) will have no effect on QT if it's already installed. The current state of dependancies, as I understand them, have no way to know the USE flag settings those dependancies were built with. For those developers/gurus among us, is this even a remote possibility? Cheers - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/SqaIInuLMrk7bIwRAlHNAJwP7+GFUfqsdtE/QBudBiMjs/30TgCglf2+ 4JYT3OOOqXXXy8LVMkVlaVA= =hm9O -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] depend/use problet
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 09:15, Mike Williams wrote: My desktop already had QT installed, and no mysql. So QT didn't have mysql support, which mythbackend and some of the other tools it seems require. I imagine some of you are now seeing the problem. That is a definate problem if I understand you correctly, Basically what you are saying is that mythtv *requires* both QT and mysql and *requires* mysql support in QT but mysql support in QT is *optional*. Is that correct? To further add to the problem, even if QT wasn't installed prior to mysql it still would not be built with mysql support because it is not in the USE flags. Well spotted! Sounds like another deficiency of the blanket USE flags system. Any devs care to comment? Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] depend/use problet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 26 August 2003 01:38, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 09:15, Mike Williams wrote: My desktop already had QT installed, and no mysql. So QT didn't have mysql support, which mythbackend and some of the other tools it seems require. I imagine some of you are now seeing the problem. That is a definate problem if I understand you correctly, Basically what you are saying is that mythtv *requires* both QT and mysql and *requires* mysql support in QT but mysql support in QT is *optional*. Is that correct? To further add to the problem, even if QT wasn't installed prior to mysql it still would not be built with mysql support because it is not in the USE flags. Well spotted! That is correct. While I was writing and QT was recompiling I did a separate manual configure of QT using the basic configure string from the ebuild, sans any USE optional flags. It picked up the mysql client library, but not the header files (the mysql USE flag has to add another include path, /usr/include/mysql). So I imagine you are correct again, mysql would need to be in USE as well. Sounds like another deficiency of the blanket USE flags system. Any devs care to comment? Jason - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/SrBbInuLMrk7bIwRAluCAJ4tZX9NPpwFaX5/Izn+raTrzMGnCgCgjEsb ADalGtFIxpnpiNZDePKUGl0= =eA8E -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
