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…
binutils and the error ld: unrecognized option ‘–no-dynamic-linker’
Yet another bites of an old bintuils installed in the system, which leads to an error and failed a building of glibc this time. The…
Building chromium fails with set the variable “swiftflags” here and it was unused before it went
Apparently, the recent versions of Chromium require a new version of dev-util/gn. Trying to build Chromium web browser with an older version such as dev-util/gn-0.1807…
Upgrading to systemd-utils and resolving systemd-tmpfiles soft blocking systemd-utils
Recently a new Gentoo package was added – sys-apps/systemd-utils, which should replace three separate packages sys-apps/systemd-tmpfiles, sys-boot/systemd-boot and sys-fs/udev. As the sys-fs/udev is one of…
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…
List all Gentoo packages built against the old Lua or specific version
After similar articles about Python (List all Gentoo packages built against the old python or specific version) under Gentoo and Ruby List all Gentoo packages…
List all Gentoo packages built against the old ruby or specific version
After a similar article about Python (List all Gentoo packages built against the old python or specific version) under Gentoo, the Ruby upgrade in Gentoo…
List all Gentoo packages built against the old python or specific version
Updating python under Gentoo is not always straightforward work. Despite a clean upgrade without any blockers or masked packages, sometimes, on old machines, there might…
Removing of kwayland-server and kwayland-server” is soft blocking kde-plasma/kwin-5.25.2
A big change for Plasma KDE happened two months ago – a “Merge kwayland-server into kwin“. So after KDE Plasma 5.25, there is no kwayland-server…