[gentoo-user] gcc with graphite flag?

2017-04-28 Thread Walter Dnes
In the past, there used to be dire warnings about the difficulty of installing gcc with graphite. Have things become easier with 5.4.0? Here's a "dry run" output... [i660][waltdnes][~] USE="graphite" emerge -pv gcc Th

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you manage manually compiled software?

2017-04-28 Thread Danny YUE
On 2017-04-28 02:19, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/27/2017 09:33 PM, Danny YUE wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I am compiling RISC-V tools...I am just curious how do you manage your >> manually compiled software? > > Don't, write an ebuild for it. Well, since everyone is recommending the "correct Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you manage manually compiled software?

2017-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:19:03 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > I am compiling RISC-V tools...I am just curious how do you manage your > > manually compiled software? > > Don't, write an ebuild for it. After checking bgo to see if anyone else has already invented that particular wheel. -- N

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you manage manually compiled software?

2017-04-28 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 04/27/2017 07:19 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/27/2017 09:33 PM, Danny YUE wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I am compiling RISC-V tools...I am just curious how do you manage your >> manually compiled software? > > Don't, write an ebuild for it. > > > +1 for this. Even if it's a somewhat amateu

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc with graphite flag?

2017-04-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/28/2017 10:08 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: In the past, there used to be dire warnings about the difficulty of installing gcc with graphite. Have things become easier with 5.4.0? I don't remember any issues with it, even with 4.9.

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc with graphite flag?

2017-04-28 Thread Corbin Bird
On 04/28/2017 02:08 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > In the past, there used to be dire warnings about the difficulty of > installing gcc with graphite. Have things become easier with 5.4.0? > Here's a "dry run" output... > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator

2017-04-28 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On 04/26/2017 03:11 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2017-04-26 12:26, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: My USE_FLAGS (make.conf) are: USE="nvidia X lua sdl mp3 flac jack alsa gtk cairo sndfile qt3support kpathsea gif tga jpeg png jpeg2k mad dvb dvdr encode lzo bzip2 ogg sox v4l v4l2 vorbis x264 x265 zsh

[gentoo-user] Re: In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator

2017-04-28 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-04-28 10:10, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > No. I meant you can't enable them *all* globally, meaning opengl, > gles, egl, etc. It's kind of the same situation as with GUI toolkits, > you can't enable them all globally because some packages support more > than one that you have to choose at c

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-28 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Mick and the whole World. On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 00:00:07 +0100, Mick wrote: > Have a look here in case it helps: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#RAID In the end, I went with grub2, and it has taken a lot of effort to get not very far. Grub's documentation is suboptimal. T

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On April 28, 2017 9:51:07 PM GMT+02:00, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >Hello, Mick and the whole World. > >On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 00:00:07 +0100, Mick wrote: > >> Have a look here in case it helps: > >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#RAID > >In the end, I went with grub2, and it has taken a lo

[gentoo-user] How to get memtest onto a USB drive

2017-04-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I have a nearly new machine which is already showing signs of hardware failure. I'd like to check its memory, for which memtest86+ seems suitable. But I can't install it via portage because this is a UEFI machine and so its boot partition is vfat; the install phase fails because sym

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get memtest onto a USB drive

2017-04-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 28 Apr 2017 22:33:35 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a nearly new machine which is already showing signs of hardware > failure. I'd like to check its memory, for which memtest86+ seems > suitable. But I can't install it via portage because this is a UEFI > machine and so i

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get memtest onto a USB drive

2017-04-28 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a nearly new machine which is already showing signs of hardware > failure. I'd like to check its memory, for which memtest86+ seems suitable. > But I can't install it via portage because this is a UEFI machine and so its > boot partition is vfat; th

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world

2017-04-28 Thread Mick
On Thursday 27 Apr 2017 18:31:36 Dale wrote: > I have it on a small post-it-note stuck on the side of my monitor. I'm > not sure, may have been Neil or Alan, that posted it this way. > > Reboot Even If System Utterly Broken. Another mnemonic: B U S I E R <=<=<=<=<=< Of course, you're meant t

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-28 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/28/2017 12:51 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Mick and the whole World. > > # Load a linux kernel, passing the root filesystem and init process as > parameters > echo "Loading kernel..." > echo "grub_platform = " $grub_platform > gfxpayload=text # For debugging. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator

2017-04-28 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On 04/28/2017 02:59 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2017-04-28 10:10, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: No. I meant you can't enable them *all* globally, meaning opengl, gles, egl, etc. It's kind of the same situation as with GUI toolkits, you can't enable them all globally because some packages support mo

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-28 Thread Bill Kenworthy
>>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Mick > > Have you tried connecting using ssh after boot? > Also, do you have the EFI console support in your kernel? > > Not near my desktop to check which ones exactly. > > -- > Joost > Second this - check the kernel options for EFI but also add the NVME drives. I f

[gentoo-user] ebuild: package specific CFLAGS

2017-04-28 Thread Ian Zimmerman
I'm trying to create an ebuild of a crufty old program that needs -fgnu89-inline in compiler flags to have any chance of building. What's the way to do that in an ebuild? I could have something like src_configure() { econf $(use_enable nls) CFLAGS=-fgnu89-inline } but then, will this not _o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator

2017-04-28 Thread tuxic
On 04/28 07:32, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On 04/28/2017 02:59 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2017-04-28 10:10, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > No. I meant you can't enable them *all* globally, meaning opengl, > > > gles, egl, etc. It's kind of the same situation as with GUI toolkits, > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild: package specific CFLAGS

2017-04-28 Thread John Covici
On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 22:10:42 -0400, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > I'm trying to create an ebuild of a crufty old program that needs > -fgnu89-inline in compiler flags to have any chance of building. > > What's the way to do that in an ebuild? I could have something like > > src_configure() { > e

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 5.4.0

2017-04-28 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > > I just did this myself. After I switched to the new gcc, I ran > revdep-rebuild. It had a large list of packages. I was planning to do > a emerge -e world anyway, so I just did it instead. No sense doing most > of it twice. During the rebuild, I had a qt package to fail. For s

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 07:57:49 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > I failed to get grub working (rather, gave up because of the lack of > docs) and went with rEFIt. info grub or https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html Not that I would advise using GRUB on a UEFI system, it's such overkill, b

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild: package specific CFLAGS

2017-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 19:10:42 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > I'm trying to create an ebuild of a crufty old program that needs > -fgnu89-inline in compiler flags to have any chance of building. > > What's the way to do that in an ebuild? I could have something like > > src_configure() { > eco

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, April 29, 2017 1:17:11 AM CEST Daniel Frey wrote: > On 04/28/2017 12:51 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Mick and the whole World. > > > > # Load a linux kernel, passing the root filesystem and init process as > > parameters echo "Loading kernel..." > > echo "grub_plat