Using the OpenRC (i.e. init system) and network names with special symbols like hyphen in the name may lead to errors of “command not found”…
Tag: gentoo
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…
Simple steps to create Gentoo custom repository and add a package
Creating a custom repository would give you a chance to fast edit (ebuild) files of existing packages and drop better versions to the custom repository,…
more than the default 4 parallel processes using distributed compiling with distcc
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…
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…
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…