Problem compiling packages (slocate in particular)

MOttS · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Mtl, CDN

Simple and usefull app (86k) but it does not like me .. :-(

Here is the output.

Jimbow · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 1:17 pm Post subject:

automake-1.4 is part of the automake package. Did you "emerge automake" ?
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MOttS · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Mtl, CDN

I have lots of stuff about automake in /usr/share.. something like

/usr/share/automake-1.4
...
/usr/share/automake-1.5
...
/usr/share/automake-1.6

Is this ok? I'm not at home right now so I cannot do an 'emerge -s automake'. But again, I compiled the whole system from the bootstrap process to 'emerge kdebase' .. how can automake not be installed?

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Jimbow · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 5:48 pm Post subject:

Do you have these?

MOttS · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Mtl, CDN

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Jimbow · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 12:58 am Post subject:

MOttS · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Mtl, CDN

I don't want to disapoint you but I compiled the whole thing (even 'emerge kde' .. not only kdebase .. the WHOLE kde suit) last January with the same hardware .. no mod at all, same overclocking and everything went well.

I had the following in make.conf:

CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"

and now I compiled with:

CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe --fomit-frame-pointer"

Could that be the --fomit-frame-pointer? Do you have an idea which test(s) I could do so to be sure about the problem(s)/cause(s) of that shit?

Look at dmesg :!:

Jimbow · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 1:30 am Post subject:

MOttS · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Mtl, CDN

Thanks again for your input Jimbow

I booted from the LiveCD and did a 'fdisk.reiserfs /dev/hda6 --check' and everything went fine. The prog did not detect anything wrong.

This installation is not working very well so I'm going to put back the image I created with Partimage just before to format the partition last week-end. I'll run it for a 2-3 days.. we will see if files disapear and if I can compile things.

Jimbow · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 2:29 am Post subject:

I hesitate to tell you this. I don't have an axe to grind, but you might want to do a search here for "overclock". It is one of the leading causes of emerge failures.

I'm not telling you what to do. You know your system and I don't. But I just wouldn't feel right if I withheld this information from you.

Good luck, I hope it works. Please let us know what happens.

PS: I think I'm going to try that tmpfs thing with Drobbins script. I'll put in a "date >> file" command so I can compare times w/ and wo/ the tmpfs.
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Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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MOttS · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Mtl, CDN

I reinstalled my image and I will try to compile some stuff tonight.. just to know if it can compile. If that works I will try to reinstall Gentoo without the --fomit-frame-pointer option in /etc/make.conf. I don't understand so much why that option would make difference but .. we never know. I will also delete my /dev/hda6 partition before create and new one and format it. This week-end I only reformated the partition (mkreiserfs /dev/hda6).. that may have mixed things up (?).

Will let you know.

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Jimbow · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 4:33 pm Post subject:

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Jimbow · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 12:55 am Post subject:

MOttS · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Mtl, CDN

Ok..

Yesterday I compiled a couple of programs with my old installation (the Partimage image) and everything went fine. So I decided to reinstall Gentoo. I followed the exact same procedure I did last week-end. Right now, I bootstraped, emerge system, compiled the kernel and rebooted. Upon reboot, I typed 'patch', 'which' and couple of others to see if the binaries were installed and they were ! So I'm currently compiling kdebase (the system is at compiling QT right now). By tonight that should be done. We'll see if the problem come back. I have to note that the problem appeared only after compiling kdebase.. because last week-end, I have been able to compile kdebase and after that .. nothing was compiling. This is when the problems started .. with slocate and all that. We'll see..

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MOttS · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Mtl, CDN

No problem yet.. KDE is finished to compile. All the binaries are there and no problem yet. I cross my fingers.. :lol:

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RATFOOD · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 44

hey I was installing gentoo on my other computer and I had this problem so I did
#emerge automake
#emerge patch

(among other things) and got it working but can someone give me a quick answer on what these automake & patch actually do??

(should I unmerge them or will they be ok just hanging out there?)

Jimbow · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2003 7:03 am Post subject:

RATFOOD · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 44

thanks Jimbow, I didn't know there was an info command like that!

However when I do

#locate "*.patch" |less

I get