I am trying to learn to use openDX from IBM (see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22217). After emerging the application I tried to follow the tutorial. The tutorial relies heavily on sample programs that should be included with openDX. In the original bug report requesting an openDX ebuild an attachement was made for an opendx-samples ebuild. For some reason this package didn't make it to the portage tree. I found I could download the source package for the sample and follow the routine "./configure && make && make install" without an itch or any input for that package and it works fine (I am on ppc and openDX is in ~ppc). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. bash-2.05b$ emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-ppc-2004.1, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.4.26-ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26-ppc ppc 7450, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=7450 -pipe -maltivec -mabi=altivec -fno-strict-aliasing" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=7450 -pipe -maltivec -mabi=altivec -fno-strict-aliasing" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.vic.keypoint.com.au http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa arts berkdb cdf cdr cups dvd dvdr esd fbcon flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libwww mitshm motif mozilla ncurses netcdf nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppc ppds python qt readline samba sdl sheep slang ssl szip tcpd tetex tiff truetype xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
I rather think this should be added to the opendx ebuild behind a doc USE. Patrick, anyone else, opinions?
That sounds reasonable to me. The only real imperative is that the user should be able to emerge it one way or another and not have to download and install it themselve as it is a part of the standard package.
doc USE sounds fine, I think.
Any progress on this?
Whow, already more than a year old... quite likely there are more urgent bugs around, but this one deserves an age bonus. I'll check this during the next days.
Not yet connected with opendx (by USE flag and *DEPEND), but in CVS.
Appeared in portage and is working, at least on x86 will test on ppc tomorrow.
Works in ppc as well. I wish you would be abble to add other keywords than ~x86 for a first ebuild. After all I opened this bug when I was working with opendx on ppc exclusively.