vmware-modules is really tough to compile on a bleeding edge kernel like last versions from kernel.org When a new kernel is out the chances you…
Gentoo
distccd failed to exec with “No such file or directory”
And you think your compile box using distccd is ready you start emerge in your server/desktop/laptop and the first package is OK, the your emerge…
Resume compilation of a package from where it failed under Gentoo
Sometimes problems are too specific, but they can show us a path to look for a more general problem and its solution. There was a…
Compilation failure with Value too large for defined data type in Gentoo
It has happened several times for the last 10 years, a program to fail during the configure stage with a strange error: It’s like the…
Gentoo emerge a package with a custom option passed to the configure
Gentoo is a source-based Linux distro and each time we want to install a package in fact we compile it with the system program emerge….
Access Violation error, when compiling packages in Gentoo
Sometimes if you try to emerge a package in Gentoo you could receive error in the configure phase of the compilation process. The example below…
glibc 2.26 and failure to compile because of xlocale.h
Since release of glibc 2.26 there is no xlocale.h file any more, because there was never intended to be as separate file! According to the…
Resume installation after a package build error, when emerging firefox under Gentoo
If you recently tried to emerge the latest Firefox in Gentoo (firefox 58.0/58.0.1) and you ended up with a compilation error of this kind: The…
tmpfs mount on /dev/shm in LXC container or chroot environment
When using LXC containers booting the lxc container would not populate it as the normal boot process. Or when you create a chroot jail /dev…