Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is perl broken?

2015-04-11 Thread Mick
On Saturday 11 Apr 2015 00:08:23 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Back to the original theme, I'd been experimenting with -j and -l make > options, and I suspect that was my real problem. I finished up with "-j > -l20" on this i5 box, with startling results - 56 emerges in parallel for > instance. I suspec

Re: [gentoo-user] Is perl broken? [SOLVED]

2015-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 05 April 2015 10:50:53 I wrote: > Today's routine update included dev-lang/perl-5.20.2 and two perl > virtuals. Since emerging those portage has stopped working: perl-cleaner > gives it a list of 71 packages to emerge but portage does nothing with > them - it just exits silently. Then pe

[gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
My machine is so completely broken right now I can't open any new terminal sessions. This is because I stupidly tried to toggle tinfo useflag in a desperate attempt to get everything in my portage tree working again. Why now did nothing in my portage tree build? It wasn't building for two reason

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:22:09 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > And then portage did two things. > > 1. It masked emul-linux -- A move that I support, it's time to see that > go. > > 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit enabled. > ALARM: ABI_x86 should be set in exactly one p

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Mick
On Saturday 11 Apr 2015 15:34:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:22:09 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > > And then portage did two things. > > > > 1. It masked emul-linux -- A move that I support, it's time to see that > > go. > > > > 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 w

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:22:09 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > >> And then portage did two things. >> >> 1. It masked emul-linux -- A move that I support, it's time to see that >> go. >> >> 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit enabled. >> ALARM: ABI_x86 s

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Alan, > 1. My machine is not correctly configured to build 32 bit executables, > mainly because I cannot find a 32 bit version of ncurses that ld is > willing to acknowledge the existence of. This seems to be working for just about everyone els

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:41:28 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > >> 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit > >> enabled. ALARM: ABI_x86 should be set in exactly one place: > >> /etc/portage/make.conf and nowhere else. But, nevertheless, ABI_x86 > >> WAS set which broke the profile

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:22:09 AM Alan Grimes wrote: > Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 > packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do > that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed out > the changes to por

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 11 April 2015 10:22:09 Alan Grimes wrote: > Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 > packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do > that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed out > the changes to portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > > 1. My machine is not correctly configured to build 32 bit executables, > > mainly because I cannot find a 32 bit version of ncurses that ld is > > willing to acknowledge the existence of. > > This seems to be working for just about everyone else. So mayb

[gentoo-user] Re: Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread walt
On 04/11/2015 05:42 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: > Byte me. > > Linux is crap, it takes all the talent I have to keep this piece of junk > running. I'll see your grumpy, and raise you two grumpies :p

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 11 April 2015 20:42:20 Alan Grimes wrote: > Linux is crap, it takes all the talent I have to keep this piece of junk > running. Just don't bother, and save the rest of us some earache. [Apologies to those who recognised the troll.) -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:22:09 AM Alan Grimes wrote: >> Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 >> packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do >> that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 11 April 2015 10:22:09 Alan Grimes wrote: > >> Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 >> packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do >> that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Dale
Alan Grimes wrote: > Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > >> If you kept your system updated all the time, you shouldnt have any >> problems. > Byte me. > > Linux is crap, it takes all the talent I have to keep this piece of junk > running. =( I'm the user here, I am not going to take any lip from you > abo