There should be a way to build licq-console without needing to build the whole licq qt-gui plugin. I really don't use graphical interfaces to licq, just the console plugin, so why build it all? The console plugin has almost no dependencies (think curses, and the licq source code). Apart from that, almost nothing. I tried USE="-X" to try to make it compile without X support, but was to no avail. I'm very new to Gentoo, and I'm still learning about the ebuilds and so on. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
emerge licq-console
When trying emerge licq-console, I get the following: root@sauron lofofora # USE="-X" emerge -p licq-console These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libpcre-3.9-r1 [ebuild N ] media-libs/tiff-3.5.7-r1 [ebuild N ] net-print/cups-1.1.18-r4 [ebuild N ] net-print/foomatic-2.0.2 [ebuild UD] x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r9 [2.2.0] [ebuild N ] dev-perl/Parse-RecDescent-1.80-r3 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/ORBit-0.5.17 [ebuild N ] media-libs/giflib-4.1.0-r3 [ebuild N ] media-libs/imlib-1.9.14-r1 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 [ebuild N ] media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.31-r1 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/XML-Writer-0.4-r2 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/gtk-perl-0.7008-r9 [ebuild N ] media-libs/mpeg-lib-1.3.1-r1 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/ExtUtils-F77-1.14-r1 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/PDL-2.3.2-r2 [ebuild N ] media-gfx/gimp-1.2.3-r3 [ebuild N ] media-gfx/gimp-print-4.2.5 [ebuild N ] app-text/ghostscript-7.05.5-r2 [ebuild N ] media-libs/lcms-1.09 [ebuild N ] media-libs/libmng-1.0.4 [ebuild N ] x11-libs/qt-3.1.0-r3 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kde-env-3-r2 [ebuild N ] kde-base/arts-1.1.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.1-r1 [ebuild N ] net-im/licq-1.2.4-r1 [ebuild N ] net-im/licq-console-1.0.2 Same happened when not using the "-X" USE flag. I have sync'd portage files this morning, and I can't update it again now (rebuilding whole system!). If it has been corrected now, or I'm doing anything wrong, please forgive me.
USE="-qt" emerge licq-console
Still the same: root@sauron lofofora # USE="-qt" emerge -p licq-console These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libpcre-3.9-r1 [ebuild N ] media-libs/tiff-3.5.7-r1 [ebuild N ] net-print/cups-1.1.18-r4 [ebuild N ] net-print/foomatic-2.0.2 [ebuild UD] x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r9 [2.2.0] [ebuild N ] dev-perl/Parse-RecDescent-1.80-r3 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/ORBit-0.5.17 [ebuild N ] media-libs/giflib-4.1.0-r3 [ebuild N ] media-libs/imlib-1.9.14-r1 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 [ebuild N ] media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.31-r1 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/XML-Writer-0.4-r2 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/gtk-perl-0.7008-r9 [ebuild N ] media-libs/mpeg-lib-1.3.1-r1 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/ExtUtils-F77-1.14-r1 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/PDL-2.3.2-r2 [ebuild N ] media-gfx/gimp-1.2.3-r3 [ebuild N ] media-gfx/gimp-print-4.2.5 [ebuild N ] app-text/ghostscript-7.05.5-r2 [ebuild N ] media-libs/lcms-1.09 [ebuild N ] media-libs/libmng-1.0.4 [ebuild N ] x11-libs/qt-3.1.0-r3 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kde-env-3-r2 [ebuild N ] kde-base/arts-1.1.0 [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.1-r1 [ebuild N ] net-im/licq-1.2.4-r1 [ebuild N ] net-im/licq-console-1.0.2
you're right, it was a faulty ebuild. Please rsync in about 30 minutes and try again: USE="-qt -arts -kde" emerge licq-console
Seems the dependencies are fixed now, however, it seems to be depending on a package named licq-1.0.4.tar.gz, which is unavailable in any mirrors: >>> Downloading http://cesnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/licq/licq-1.0.4.tar.gz --23:12:24-- http://cesnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/licq/licq-1.0.4.tar.gz => `/usr/portage/distfiles/licq-1.0.4.tar.gz' Resolving cesnet.dl.sourceforge.net... done. Connecting to cesnet.dl.sourceforge.net[195.113.161.88]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 23:12:25 ERROR 404: Not Found. This is the same in all mirrors, until emerge runs out of mirrors and bails out.
Created attachment 7992 [details] modified ebuild to get licq-console to download and compile This is the modified ebuild I got working here. I just changed the console plugin directory, and the filename to download (1.0.4 isn't found on mirrors). I got it working here
thanks for making me pay closer attention to this neglected ebuild. I'm going to kill it in portage, and make licq install the plugin during its emerge. stand by for an update
Created attachment 8004 [details] Patch on ebuild/digest to get it to work Sorry, browser didn't send the patch correctly. I'm sending it now. It applies to the ebuild and to the digest file. Sent a ChangeLog as well. The filenames on net-im/licq-console should be renamed (change 1.0.2 to 1.2.4). I'm not too used to making patches, so sorry if I did something wrong.
ok, licq-console has been killed in portage. Licq has been updated to 1.2.4-r2. the new licq ebuild installs the console front end by default now, regardless of whether you have qt or gtk installed.
actually, lordvan has a slight tweak to make it even more gentoo like
ok. here's how it is now -- have "ncurses" in your USE settings and you will get the console plugin. If you do USE="-kde -qt -gtk ncurses" you'll ONLY get the console plugin. I will create two patches for licq shortly, so that startup is a little more intelligent for it.
did some sed magic to pick a default front-end, based on USE settings, but lordvan has submitted a patch upstream to make licq's code more intelligent.
Ack! The updates look great, but unfortunately we have a masking conflict in Gentoo 1.2. prometheus:~ # emerge licq -up These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies / !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-libs/ncurses-5.3" have been masked. !!! (dependency required by "net-im/licq-1.2.4-r2" [ebuild]) !!! Error calculating dependancies. Please correct. The latest version of ncurses available to me, without some form of ebuild treachery, is ncurses-5.2-r7. Would it suffice to require an older version of ncurses? I seem to recall using LICQ's console plugin on a much older version without fail, and it would make the ebuild much more portable. I don't see anything in the console plugin that would require the latest and greatest version of ncurses.
ack! will fix
ok, it just depends on ncurses now, not a specific version. please test and report.
db fix
