Emerging the package app-emulation/virtualbox the following error occurs: The configure script reports the mesa is missing, but the package media-libs/mesa is installed. Reinstalling does not…
Tag: compile
VBoxManage: error: Failed to initialize COM! NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST (0x80520006)
What an error! And the VirtualBox stopped loading anymore! This error: and here with the GIU, which offers a little bit more information about the…
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…
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…
Access Violation error when compiling packages in Gentoo – symlink
Here is another example of an Access violation error when building packages in Gentoo. This time the build process could not make a symbolic link…
Missing pkg-config results in configure error: possibly undefined macro
This small article is for you who wonder why a configure script under Linux failed with an error like: So autoreconf failed with missing macros,…
Build your own kernel under Ubuntu using mainline (latest) kernel
Here we will show how to build your own kernel under Ubuntu 16/17/18. We are going to use mainline kernel because most of the cases…
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…