[gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-10 Thread Duncan
John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu posted 4a2f22f6.8020...@uri.edu, excerpted below, on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:05:26 -0400: Thank you, Duncan. I share your preference for open source programs. [snip] It seems the two answers from others took care of most of your questions. FWIW, I don't use

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-10 Thread John P. Burkett
Lie Ryan wrote: John P. Burkett wrote: However, that doesn't seem to be the issue here, which brings us to reason #2. The ati-drivers include a kernel driver, which must be compiled against a kernel that has been built so the proper parts of it are exposed for the drivers to use. The

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-10 Thread John P. Burkett
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/10/2009 06:05 AM, John P. Burkett wrote: Thank you, Duncan. I share your preference for open source programs. I'm not sure how the ati-drivers got on my machine or what they were doing. If my system functions without them, I'm happy to be rid of them. You

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-10 Thread Lie Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John P. Burkett wrote: Lie Ryan wrote: John P. Burkett wrote: However, that doesn't seem to be the issue here, which brings us to reason #2. The ati-drivers include a kernel driver, which must be compiled against a kernel that has been built

[gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread Duncan
John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu posted 4a2db2a9.80...@uri.edu, excerpted below, on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:54:01 -0400: Thank you, Duncan, for the explanation and suggestion. Doing fix_libtool_files.sh 4.2.0 or fix_libtool_files.sh 4.2 elicited the following response: * Scanning libtool

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread Josh Sled
Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net writes: It's not going to be of much help at the moment, but FWIW, upgrades do tend to go much smoother if you don't stay away from them so long. Personally, I try to do them twice a week so there's never too huge a list, and even when a kde upgrade comes out,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread John P. Burkett
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: John P. Burkett wrote: Doing emerge --empty-tree world evoked the following response: emerge: error: no such option: --empty-tree Just use -e instead. Thank you, Nikos. -John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread John P. Burkett
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 07:03 +, Duncan wrote: John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu posted 4a2db2a9.80...@uri.edu, excerpted below, on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:54:01 -0400: Thank you, Duncan, for the explanation and suggestion. Doing fix_libtool_files.sh 4.2.0 or fix_libtool_files.sh 4.2

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread Josh Sled
John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu writes: My weekly routine has been to do eix-sync emerge -D -uav system emerge -D -uav world When the responses have suggested doing revdep rebuild, I've done so. From now on I'll try to follow your good example of upgrading twice a week. Whether I should

[gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread Duncan
Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org posted 874oup4k11@phoenix.asynchronous.org, excerpted below, on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:24:42 -0400: Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net writes: It's not going to be of much help at the moment, but FWIW, upgrades do tend to go much smoother if you don't stay away from

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread John P. Burkett
Josh Sled wrote: John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu writes: My weekly routine has been to do eix-sync emerge -D -uav system emerge -D -uav world When the responses have suggested doing revdep rebuild, I've done so. From now on I'll try to follow your good example of upgrading twice a week.

[gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread Duncan
John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu posted 1244553079.25061.91.ca...@microway, excerpted below, on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:11:19 -0400: On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 07:03 +, Duncan wrote: Try gcc-config, then. Thank you, Duncan. When I did gcc-config -l the response was as follows: * gcc-config:

[gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread Duncan
John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu posted 4a2e900f.1070...@uri.edu, excerpted below, on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:38:39 -0400: My first priority now is to respond to the error message mentioned in my 9:11 a.m. note: error while loading shared libraries: libgfortran.so.1: cannot open shared object

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread John P. Burkett
Duncan wrote: John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu posted 4a2e900f.1070...@uri.edu, excerpted below, on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:38:39 -0400: My first priority now is to respond to the error message mentioned in my 9:11 a.m. note: error while loading shared libraries: libgfortran.so.1: cannot open

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread Josh Sled
John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu writes: Doing revdep-rebuild -p elicited this response: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sci-libs/blas-atlas-3.8.0 [ebuild R ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-20080418 [ebuild R ] mail-client/evolution-2.24.5 [ebuild R ]

[gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread Duncan
John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu posted 4a2ee4c1.8000...@uri.edu, excerpted below, on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:40:01 -0400: Doing revdep-rebuild -p elicited this response: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sci-libs/blas-atlas-3.8.0 [ebuild R ]

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread John P. Burkett
Josh Sled wrote: John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu writes: Doing revdep-rebuild -p elicited this response: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sci-libs/blas-atlas-3.8.0 [ebuild R ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-20080418 [ebuild R ] mail-client/evolution-2.24.5

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread John P. Burkett
Duncan wrote: John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu posted 4a2ee4c1.8000...@uri.edu, excerpted below, on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:40:01 -0400: Doing revdep-rebuild -p elicited this response: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sci-libs/blas-atlas-3.8.0 [ebuild R ]

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread Lie Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John P. Burkett wrote: However, that doesn't seem to be the issue here, which brings us to reason #2. The ati-drivers include a kernel driver, which must be compiled against a kernel that has been built so the proper parts of it are exposed

[gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/10/2009 06:05 AM, John P. Burkett wrote: Thank you, Duncan. I share your preference for open source programs. I'm not sure how the ati-drivers got on my machine or what they were doing. If my system functions without them, I'm happy to be rid of them. You should know if you're using

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-08 Thread John P. Burkett
Duncan wrote: John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu posted 4a2d3554.6050...@uri.edu, excerpted below, on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:59:16 -0400: Last night on a amd64 machine I (perhaps rashly) did emerge --update --newuse --deep world emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild The last command produced the

[gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild, Firefox, Thunderbird, GCC

2009-06-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
John P. Burkett wrote: Doing emerge --empty-tree world evoked the following response: emerge: error: no such option: --empty-tree Just use -e instead.