The following line in the links ebuild (both links-2.1_pre9 and links-2.1_pre11): fbcon? ( >=media-libs/libpng-1.2.1 sys-libs/gpm ) seems to indicate that gpm is required when the framebuffer is used, but this is not so. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline tetex aalib bonobo svga tcltk java guile ruby X sdl tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk motif opengl mozilla cdr apache2 fbcon gtk2 imap maildir mozcalendar moznocompose moznoirc mozsvg mozxmlterm plotutils ppds samba scanner usb -oss -apm -arts -gpm -kde -nls -qt"
you're the nth person to say so, so it is done
gpm is needed when compiling links with framebuffer support. The configure script will only allow the framebuffer graphics driver to be built if all of the following header files are present: /usr/include/linux/fb.h /usr/include/linux/kd.h /usr/include/linux/vt.h /usr/include/sys/mman.h /usr/include/sys/ioctl.h /usr/include/gpm.h <-- this is provided by sys-apps/gpm And of course the framebuffer source file itself needs the gpm.h header file: /* framebuffer.c * Linux framebuffer code * (c) 2002 Petr 'Brain' Kulhavy * This file is a part of the Links program, released under GPL. */ #include "cfg.h" #ifdef GRDRV_FB #define USE_GPM_DX /* #define FB_DEBUG */ /* #define SC_DEBUG */ #if defined(FB_DEBUG) || defined(SC_DEBUG) #define MESSAGE(a) fprintf(stderr,"%s",a); #endif #ifdef TEXT #undef TEXT #endif #include "links.h" #include <gpm.h> <-- once again there's that gpm.h ..... gpm has been re-added as a dependency of fbcon.
