Distributed compilation could greatly speed the build process of Gentoo packages (and not only Gentoo, of course). If you tend to use Gentoo on a…
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Q_WEBENGINECORE_EXPORT QWebEngineFindTextResult has initializer but incomplete type
In addition to one of the cstdlib fix here – Gentoo building qtgui error – g++-v8/cstdlib:75:15: fatal error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory we…
env python3.5: no such file or directory
The dependency conflicts may require a lot of time to resolve. On the contrary, uninstalling old software is easy, but it might lead to multiple…
display packages from the Gentoo emerge resume list
A quick tip and an easy hack to see the emerge resume list, which will be used by the “emerge –resume” command. There are two…
gentoo emerge resume – Invalid resume list and clean the list
Under Gentoo and emerge it will eventually end up using “–resume” paired with “–skipfirst” emerge command, which should resume last list of packages to build…
meson.build – ERROR: Dependency “x11” not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake
Another day and another major update exposed an error of missing the “x11” library. Apparently, the pkg-config got corrupted for X11 library. Most of the…
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…
Gentoo – updating perl and problems like perl-core/ is blocking virtual/perl-
When upgrading Perl under Gentoo it’s almost typical to have blocks of the kind: These blocks appeared when we tried updaring the Perl 5.26 to…
emerge – ERROR: 17.1 migration has not been performed – upgrade from 13 to 17.1
When upgrading to 17.1 profile you need to perform additional steps to get to a healthy Gentoo portage system using profile 17.1. Here what we…