Yet another GNU GCC 14 error when building the old Python 2.7.18, which is not supported any more, but still in use in legacy software:…
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mplayer 1.5 compilation failure -Wincompatible-pointer-types using GNU GCC 14 under Gentoo
Using GNU GCC to build the package mplayer 1.5 may result in an error during the compilation phase with the following output: In version 14…
Gentoo clang-15: error: does not contain a GCC installation
Trying to build a package resulted in a building failure because a Clang could not find GNU GCC installation as the error shows. Executing just…
Patch and resume compilation of a failed package in Gentoo – ebuild, local repository or ctrl+Z
A dependency package failed to compile throwing error and existing the emerge of a queue with a hundred and more packages. Or worse you installed…
libselinux – undefined reference to pcre_version
Emerging the “sys-libs/libselinux-2.9-r1” failed with this link errors of undefined references The solution was to rebuild the dev-libs/libpcre and dev-libs/libpcre2 libraries. if you encounter the…
Gentoo – UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character ‘\xc4’ in position 83: ordinal not in range(128)
Recently emerging package =dev-lang/go-1.13.4 under Gentoo failed on one of our virtual servers with: The above log shows that the emerge fails in the installation…
genkernel – ERROR: Unable to generate splash, ‘splash_geninitramfs’ was not found!
If you tried recently to build your kernel with genkernel (4.0.0_beta17, but you will have the same problem with 3.x) you may end up with…
CentOS 7 – Your kernel headers for kernel cannot be found at – missing kernel-devel
Getting the following error may be deceiving: Because you may have already installed the kernel-headers package for the current kernel and still to get the…
Install Nginx virtual host traffic status module – traffic information in nginx and more per server block and upstreams
This article is going to show how to compile and install the Nginx module – ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status. The module gathers traffic information per the server blocks…
PHP 7.2 or PHP 7.3 with mcrypt – manual build
Newer PHP versions do not include PHP mcrypt library. The mcrypt module was part of PHP 5 till 7.1, in which it was deprecated and…