----- Mail original ----- > De: "Alain Didierjean" <alain.didierj...@free.fr> > À: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Envoyé: Vendredi 30 Novembre 2012 10:00:27 > Objet: Re: [gentoo-user] xfig won't compile > > > > ----- Mail original ----- > > De: "Peter Weilbacher" <newss...@weilbacher.org> > > À: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Envoyé: Vendredi 30 Novembre 2012 09:54:07 > > Objet: Re: [gentoo-user] xfig won't compile > > > > On 2012-11-27 12:34, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:20:02PM +0100, Alain Didierjean wrote: > > >> I cannot emerge xfig. Both versions (amd64 & ~amd64) return that > > >> informative message: > > >> > > >> * Messages for package media-gfx/xfig-3.2.5b-r2: > > [...] > > >> So: > > >> - known bug ? > > >> - tip available ? > > >> or should I fill a bug report ? > > > > [...] > > > > > Otherwise you could file a bugreport (where you should attach the > > > build.log nonetheless) > > > > There is <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405475>. > > Peter. > > Thanks, Peter, I'll check that. > As for you, Hinnerk, your method is OK, but as for me, when that type > of problem arises, I first check on this list if it is a known > problem, eventually with a work around. Then I check for an existing > bug report, then I fill abug report if necessary. >
As a conclusion: the link provided by Peter lead to the description of the bug I had noticed and to a quick and dirty patch allowing me to print a big fat LyX document with a lot of .fig figures, urgently needed by my students. Can I ask for anything more ?