Bug 24568 – configure for xscreensaver-4.10 fails - 'bc' not found

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) 2003-07-15 23:17:24 UTC]

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[...]
checking for bc... no
                                                                               
                                                                            
configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a standard
                  part of Unix since the 1970s.  Come back when your vendor
                  has grown a clue.
                                                                               
                                                                            
!!! ERROR: x11-misc/xscreensaver-4.10 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 304, Exitcode 1
!!! econf failed
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So what?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. $ emerge =x11-misc/xscreensaver-4.10

[Comment 1 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-07-18 10:42:48 UTC]

so emerge bc? have you got bc installed ? it is part of the base system profile in /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4/packages .. 

[Comment 2 Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) 2003-07-19 15:20:51 UTC]

Are you kidding me? :)
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[wschlich@wschlich(pts/6):wschlich]$ epm -qG bc
sys-devel/bc-1.06-r5
[wschlich@wschlich(pts/6):wschlich]$
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btw, I believe that "sys-devel/bc" is not the "bc" xscreensaver wants...

[Comment 3 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-07-20 02:23:08 UTC]

what bc do you think it wants? that message implies it wants sys-devel/bc.

attach the config.log from xscreensaver

[Comment 4 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-08-28 08:48:49 UTC]

emm ? any more info ? 

[Comment 5 Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) 2003-08-28 10:04:40 UTC]

Created attachment 16731 [details]
x11-misc/xscreensaver-4.10 config.log

[Comment 6 Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) 2003-08-28 10:11:44 UTC]

Same with x11-misc/xscreensaver-4.11.
Well, something more interesting: I now have this error when trying to re-merge 4.05-r3 as well %-}

[Comment 7 Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) 2003-08-28 10:16:21 UTC]

ARGHL! Now I know the reasen :-(((

BC_ENV_ARGS="/root/.bcrc"
-> The file is non-existant

Running the configure bc test "echo 6+9 | bc":
-> "File /root/.bcrc is unavailable."

*sigh*

Unset BC_ENV_ARGS
-> works

[Comment 8 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-08-29 00:04:07 UTC]

alright, so it seems like a local issue then. glad we got to the bottom of that

[Comment 9 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-08-29 10:21:42 UTC]

changing to invalid. eg. not our fault :)