Is this distribution actually suppose to be installable?? I wonder. I don't mind the compile time necessary when the install isn't broken but for the past several months every amd64 installation I try to install fails during the "emerge -e system" stage on some various broken dependency. This time it's due to x11-libs/qt. Looks like the ebuild for qt specifies a need for libXrender and it isn't found so the qt compile halts. (Last time it was links) For the other broken installs I can usually find the offending missing package, manually emerge it and then let an emerge --resume continue. However, libXrender is package masked. If I put it in package.unmask and try to manually emerge it I get another warning about the need of another, package mask of a major X11 library. Which leads me to believe that if I try to install qt I will wind up installing an entire development branch of X which clearly is not ready to be beta tested by the likes of me. So my questions are: 1) What do I due to get around this qt/Xrender bug this time? 2) Am I suppose to be specifying my final desired USE flags during the installation or should I just keep them the absolute bare minimum? It seems that you would want the system tailored to you intended use from the very start. However, it always seems to be my USE flags that is pulling in several hundred packages for system and this leads to a high probability (100%) that I catch some random roken dependency during every single installation. For instance... Why is emerge -e system bringing in X, qt, links, java???? None of these seem to me to be "base system" applications. 3) What sort of damage is done if I --skip the installation of qt so that I can get a bootable machine? I can deal with X, graphics and eye candy later. I'm guessing a lot of problems since tons of stuff still needs to be compiled and probably requires qt. Anyhow, While I sit with a useless server, unable to be installed I would appreciate it if somebody more knowledgable than I can read the following diagnostics and tell me how to get past the install stage. Here's the emerge attempt and errors about trying to install qt: ======================================================================== >>> emerge (1 of 83) x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 to / >>> md5 files ;-) qt-3.3.5.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) qt-3.3.4-r8.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) qt-4.1.0-r2.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) qt-4.1.1.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) qt-4.1.0-r1.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) qt-3.3.5-r1.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) qt-3.3.4-r9.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) files/0001-dnd_optimization.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/0037-dnd-timestamp-fix.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/0002-dnd_active_window_fix.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-qt-3.3.5 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-qt-4.1.1 >>> md5 files ;-) files/qt4-nomkdir.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/qt-3.3.4-0047-fix-kmenu-widget.diff >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-qt-3.3.4-r8 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-qt-3.3.4-r9 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-qt-3.3.5-r1 >>> md5 files ;-) files/qt-3.3.5-immodule.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/qt-3.3.4-macos.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/qt-3.3.4-gcc4-volatile.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/qt-4.1.0-debug-and-release.diff >>> md5 files ;-) files/qt-4.1.0-configure-no-mysql.diff >>> md5 files ;-) files/qt-3.3.5-uic-fix.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/qt-3.3.4-immodule-focus.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/qt-ulibc.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/qt-3.3.5-macos.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/qt-3.3.4-qclipboard-hack.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/qt-3.3.4-gcc4.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/qt-3.3.4-0051-qtoolbar_77047.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/0038-dragobject-dont-prefer-unknown.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-qt-4.1.0-r1 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-qt-4.1.0-r2 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) qt-x11-free-3.3.4.tar.bz2 QA Notice: USE Flag 'kernel_linux' not in IUSE for x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking qt-x11-free-3.3.4.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/qt-3.3.4-r8/work * Applying qt-3.3.4-qclipboard-hack.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying 0001-dnd_optimization.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying 0002-dnd_active_window_fix.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying 0037-dnd-timestamp-fix.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying 0038-dragobject-dont-prefer-unknown.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying qt-3.3.4-0051-qtoolbar_77047.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying qt-3.3.4-0047-fix-kmenu-widget.diff ... [ ok ] * Applying qt-3.3.4-gcc4.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying qt-3.3.4-gcc4-volatile.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying qt-ulibc.patch ... [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked. IBASE auto-detection... Could not find libgds.* anywhere in /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/mysql IBASE disabled. MySQL auto-detection... Could not find libmysqlclient.* anywhere in /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/mysql MySQL disabled. ODBC auto-detection... Could not find libodbc.* anywhere in /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/mysql ODBC disabled. PostgreSQL auto-detection... Could not find libpq.* anywhere in /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/mysql PostgreSQL disabled. NIS auto-detection... (-L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/lib64/mysql -I/usr/include/mysql) Found nsl lib in /usr/lib64 Found rpcsvc/ypclnt.h in /usr/include Found rpcsvc/yp_prot.h in /usr/include NIS enabled. CUPS auto-detection... (-L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/lib64/mysql -I/usr/include/mysql) Found cups lib in /usr/lib64 Found cups/cups.h in /usr/include CUPS enabled. OpenGL auto-detection... (-L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/lib64/mysql -I/usr/include/mysql) Could not find GLU lib anywhere in /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/mysql /usr/X11R6/lib64 /usr/X11R6/lib64 /usr/shlib /usr/lib /lib OpenGL disabled. Xcursor auto-detection... (-L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/lib64/mysql -I/usr/include/mysql) Could not find Xcursor lib anywhere in /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/mysql /usr/X11R6/lib64 /usr/shlib /usr/lib /lib Xcursor disabled. XRandR auto-detection... (-L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/lib64/mysql -I/usr/include/mysql) Could not find XRandR lib anywhere in /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/mysql /usr/X11R6/lib64 /usr/shlib /usr/lib /lib XRandR disabled. XRender auto-detection... (-L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/lib64/mysql -I/usr/include/mysql) Could not find XRender lib anywhere in /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/mysql /usr/X11R6/lib64 /usr/shlib /usr/lib /lib XRender disabled. XRender support cannot be enabled due to functionality tests! Turn on verbose messaging (-v) to ./configure to see the final report. If you believe this message is in error you may use the continue switch (-continue) to ./configure to continue. !!! ERROR: x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 184, Exitcode 101 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Here's my emerge --info =============================================================================== Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.netnitco.net " MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://localhost:4040/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X Xaw3d acpi alsa apache2 arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdparanoia cdr crypt cups doc dri dvd dvdr eds emacs emboss emul-linux-x86 encode examples expat foomaticdb fortran gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk2 imlib innodb ipv6 java javascript jpeg kde kdeenablefinal lcms ldap lzw lzw-tiff mad mmap mng mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nis nls nptl offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdf pdflib perl php png posix python qt quicktime readline samba sdl sharedmem snmp sockets spell ssl sysvipc tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xml xml2 xpm xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Qt requires X If you don't want X, you don't need Qt. I assume you have xorg-x11 installed ? i think you'll get much more responsive help if you get on IRC in #gentoo or something like that. Seemingly something else is wrong here.
Curious, why are you using emerge -e ? Best as I can guess, some package you have part of your base system relies on Qt, which is why this whole dependency chain gets picked up. All Qt needs is x11-base/xorg-x11. I'm a little baffled why Qt finds things like "cups" and "nis" installed, if this is a new base system emerge? Why are those things already installed?
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