Fresh Install, can't emerge xorg-x11! [SOLVED]

chota · Last edited by chota on Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:14 am; edited 1 time in total

This is really getting tiring...

I tried emerging every single ebuild in x11-base/xorg-x11 (xorg-x11-6.7.0-r3, xorg-x11-6.8.0-r3, xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4, xorg-x11-6.8.2, and xorg-x11-6.8.1.901-r1), using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" when necessary, but NONE of them compile. Here's the error I get when I do

donjuan · l33t Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 760 Location: At Uni

http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2000-October/002886.html

You are missing flex.
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Sith_Happens · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:08 am Post subject:

Edited: Answer given as I was posting.

In the future when you post something like a log or config file, or even commands try using the code tags, they format the text better.

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chota · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:43 am Post subject:

Thanks, you guys rock.

I did an "emerge flex" (hope that's the right package!!) and now did

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge xorg-x11

We'll see if it works (going to bed now, so I'll check it in the AM)

Just out of curiosity, how the HECK do you know that? It seems a bit esoteric in my book... Then again, I'm used to it "just working" on SPARC64 and PPC.

Oh well,

chris.

donjuan · l33t Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 760 Location: At Uni

Just did a Google search on "cannot find -lfl". After seeing compile errors a few hundred times you start to learn what to look for. And yeah, flex is the right package.

One other thing, it's a bad idea to use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line like that. You'll find out why when you go to do an emerge -uD world (do NOT use emerge -UD world, you can search the forums to find out why). So if you want to emerge something that's marked as ~ARCH on an otherwise "stable" system put it in /etc/portage/package.keywords. There's a description of how all that works in the handbook.
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chota · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:42 pm Post subject:

Emerging flex and then emerging xorg-x11 worked, thanks to you both!

donjuan: that's funny about what you say about prepending ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to emerge like that; I could've sworn I got that "technique" from the last part of the install guide for x86 (working with portage)... but I could be hallucinating (just woke up), so I'll go re-read the portage info. It's just... so... massive. I think part of the problem is that I can't think of a good real-life analogy to what portage does, so it's taking me a while to get past the basics (emerge and emerge -u I'm fine on, though).

Anywho, thanks for all your help!

chris.

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donjuan · l33t Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 760 Location: At Uni

chota: I wouldn't be surprised if you read about using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the commandline in the handbook. I think I read about it there when I first installed Gentoo, though I'm pretty sure that it doesn't anymore. I only learned about it being a bad idea when somebody on the forums mentioned it to me.
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B7 · n00b Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 17

Emerging flex was exactly what I needed to get xorg working. Had the same exact error. Thanks a lot for the thread/post.

opentaka · l33t Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 840 Location: Japan

me too, was using vanilla-sources and had xorg-x11 emerge fail.
thanks
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Kamaji · n00b Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 9

I had this happen also, and whilst doing step 6.d. "Progressing from Stage2 to Stage3" of the gentoo system install guide.

It seems to me that the dependencies of the xorg package need to be updated to include flex...

lami · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 23

I reported a bug about it, hope it is not dup

. I pasted your error report, chota, because I lost mine and I already fixed it. See bug# 101072
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opentaka · l33t Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 840 Location: Japan

its dup.
i reported already before.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100433
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Kamaji · n00b Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 9

Bug 100433 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100433
seems to be a duplicate of bug 87613 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87613

In any case, the problem seems to be with --newuse. If you use --newuse, flex will be emerged *after* xorg, and xorg depends on flex.
They still don't seem to get that there is a problem.
Someone did post feedback to the primary bug (#87613) that the problem has to do with --newuse, which is in the install docs, so hopefully one of the maintainers will finally see the problem. It seems as though it would be a relatively easy to fix the dependency issue.

~Kamaji

opentaka · l33t Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 840 Location: Japan