Re: [gentoo-user] Module and kernel woes after two "emerge -DuNe @world"s

2019-06-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/9/19 12:49 PM, Mick wrote: 3. Rebuild libtools, binutils, glibc. Well, I've had some progress. I'm now booted and running the kernel I just compiled. (Same config, same genkernel command.) I unmasked, downgraded, and selected (binutils-config) binutils to 2.30-r4 before re-running

Re: [gentoo-user] Module and kernel woes after two "emerge -DuNe @world"s

2019-06-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/9/19 2:23 PM, Mick wrote: I think Dale meant a later tree will contain updated packages, which may fix previous breakages and incompatibilities. Please clarify which tree: Kernel and / or Portage Hypothetically, a later VBox version requires some later version libs, which your current

Re: [gentoo-user] Module and kernel woes after two "emerge -DuNe @world"s

2019-06-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 9 June 2019 21:16:52 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 6/9/19 1:38 PM, Dale wrote: > > While I see that point and quite often it is a good idea, it could > > also be that a fix is in the newer tree. It could even be that you > > caught the tree in the middle of some sort of change and you

Re: [gentoo-user] Module and kernel woes after two "emerge -DuNe @world"s

2019-06-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/9/19 1:38 PM, Dale wrote: While I see that point and quite often it is a good idea, it could also be that a fix is in the newer tree. It could even be that you caught the tree in the middle of some sort of change and you missed part of it. If it were me, I'd try everything you can but

Re: [gentoo-user] Module and kernel woes after two "emerge -DuNe @world"s

2019-06-09 Thread Dale
Grant Taylor wrote: > On 6/9/19 12:49 PM, Mick wrote: > >> 2. Sync portage and upgrade gcc to the latest stable version. Switch >> to it. > > Portage is within a few days of current. > > I do an emerge --sync -q before doing the emerge -DuNeq @world.  I've > not done a --sync since then while

Re: [gentoo-user] Module and kernel woes after two "emerge -DuNe @world"s

2019-06-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/9/19 12:49 PM, Mick wrote: If you haven't done it already, perhaps have a look in the path /lib/modules/ 4.9.76-gentoo-r1/misc/ to check the VBox modules are present and owned by root:root with 0644 access rights. They are there. I would have expected the error message to be different

Re: [gentoo-user] Module and kernel woes after two "emerge -DuNe @world"s

2019-06-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 9 June 2019 18:55:34 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 6/9/19 2:56 AM, Mick wrote: > > This sounds as if it may be related to a move from an older gcc to > > a newer version. > > I'm not sure it's related to a gcc version: > > # gcc-config -l > [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-6.4.0 * > [2]

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages failed to build during 17.0 -> 17.1 migration

2019-06-09 Thread Jack
On 2019.06.07 06:24, Ilya Trukhanov wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 08:03:30AM +0100, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:49:48 -0400 > Jack wrote: > > > On 2019.06.06 18:38, Ilya Trukhanov wrote: > > > Namely x11-libs/libX11 and dev-libs/glib: > > > > > > - libX11 failed during

Re: [gentoo-user] Module and kernel woes after two "emerge -DuNe @world"s

2019-06-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/9/19 2:56 AM, Mick wrote: This sounds as if it may be related to a move from an older gcc to a newer version. I'm not sure it's related to a gcc version: # gcc-config -l [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-6.4.0 * [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-8.3.0 I think that gcc 8.3 might have been selected and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping 17-year-old Kylix software alive

2019-06-09 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Den 09.06.2019 11:24, skrev Matthias Hanft: The old Kylix libraries just do some comprehensive calculations. Not too difficult to manually translate that into PHP (or any other script language, or even plain C), but just hundreds of code lines to type... Find a Pascal-to-C++ translator

Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping 17-year-old Kylix software alive

2019-06-09 Thread Matthias Hanft
Mick wrote: > > Did you try the new revdep-rebuild in case it works (better)? "Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done." which, obviously, is not true :-) BTW, the old revdep-rebuild.sh finally wants to rebuild hundreds of packages... which I interrupted - makes no sense at

Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping 17-year-old Kylix software alive

2019-06-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 9 June 2019 09:21:17 BST Mick wrote: > Hi Matt, > > On Sunday, 9 June 2019 08:49:21 BST Matthias Hanft wrote: > > Hi, > > > > many years ago, I created some libSomething.so with Kylix 3 (1) > > which still worked with current (32bit) Gentoo systems (Kernel > > 4.14.83). > > > > Using

Re: [gentoo-user] Module and kernel woes after two "emerge -DuNe @world"s

2019-06-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 8 June 2019 20:45:45 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 6/8/19 12:26 PM, Mick wrote: > > Were these contents not there, or is it that the new version of > > modules do not work? > > The old (original for the sake of this thread) versions (restored from > backups) work just fine. > > The

Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping 17-year-old Kylix software alive

2019-06-09 Thread Mick
Hi Matt, On Sunday, 9 June 2019 08:49:21 BST Matthias Hanft wrote: > Hi, > > many years ago, I created some libSomething.so with Kylix 3 (1) > which still worked with current (32bit) Gentoo systems (Kernel > 4.14.83). > > Using "revdep-rebuild.sh" (the *old* script!), for some time, > I already

[gentoo-user] Keeping 17-year-old Kylix software alive

2019-06-09 Thread Matthias Hanft
Hi, many years ago, I created some libSomething.so with Kylix 3 (1) which still worked with current (32bit) Gentoo systems (Kernel 4.14.83). Using "revdep-rebuild.sh" (the *old* script!), for some time, I already got messages like broken /usr/local/lib/libxercesxmldom.so.1