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…
Tag: gentoo
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…
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…
Building python 3.10.4 and possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
Emerging the new python 3.10 in Gentoo may lead to the following error, despite all the dependencies installed. This error might also occur in any…
Change found sources for kernel version when packages need the kernel sources to compile
Multiple Gentoo packages may need kernel sources to compile. There are packages, which are external modules such as virtualbox-modules or video drivers or wifi drivers…
Kernel building failure – unable to initialize decompress status for section .debug_info
Upgrading the Gentoo system may lead to some glitches especially if not emerge the world slot very often! In fact, leaving older packages living with…
Gentoo emerge virtualbox- Mesa / GLU: Mesa not found at, Mesa headers not found
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…
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…