Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, April 29, 2017 1:17:11 AM CEST Daniel Frey wrote: > On 04/28/2017 12:51 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Mick and the whole World. > > > > # Load a linux kernel, passing the root filesystem and init process as > > parameters echo "Loading kernel..." > > echo "grub_plat

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild: package specific CFLAGS

2017-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 19:10:42 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > I'm trying to create an ebuild of a crufty old program that needs > -fgnu89-inline in compiler flags to have any chance of building. > > What's the way to do that in an ebuild? I could have something like > > src_configure() { > eco

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 07:57:49 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > I failed to get grub working (rather, gave up because of the lack of > docs) and went with rEFIt. info grub or https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html Not that I would advise using GRUB on a UEFI system, it's such overkill, b

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 5.4.0

2017-04-28 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > > I just did this myself. After I switched to the new gcc, I ran > revdep-rebuild. It had a large list of packages. I was planning to do > a emerge -e world anyway, so I just did it instead. No sense doing most > of it twice. During the rebuild, I had a qt package to fail. For s

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild: package specific CFLAGS

2017-04-28 Thread John Covici
On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 22:10:42 -0400, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > I'm trying to create an ebuild of a crufty old program that needs > -fgnu89-inline in compiler flags to have any chance of building. > > What's the way to do that in an ebuild? I could have something like > > src_configure() { > e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator

2017-04-28 Thread tuxic
On 04/28 07:32, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On 04/28/2017 02:59 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2017-04-28 10:10, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > No. I meant you can't enable them *all* globally, meaning opengl, > > > gles, egl, etc. It's kind of the same situation as with GUI toolkits, > > >

[gentoo-user] ebuild: package specific CFLAGS

2017-04-28 Thread Ian Zimmerman
I'm trying to create an ebuild of a crufty old program that needs -fgnu89-inline in compiler flags to have any chance of building. What's the way to do that in an ebuild? I could have something like src_configure() { econf $(use_enable nls) CFLAGS=-fgnu89-inline } but then, will this not _o

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-28 Thread Bill Kenworthy
>>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Mick > > Have you tried connecting using ssh after boot? > Also, do you have the EFI console support in your kernel? > > Not near my desktop to check which ones exactly. > > -- > Joost > Second this - check the kernel options for EFI but also add the NVME drives. I f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator

2017-04-28 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On 04/28/2017 02:59 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2017-04-28 10:10, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: No. I meant you can't enable them *all* globally, meaning opengl, gles, egl, etc. It's kind of the same situation as with GUI toolkits, you can't enable them all globally because some packages support mo

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-28 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/28/2017 12:51 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Mick and the whole World. > > # Load a linux kernel, passing the root filesystem and init process as > parameters > echo "Loading kernel..." > echo "grub_platform = " $grub_platform > gfxpayload=text # For debugging. >

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world

2017-04-28 Thread Mick
On Thursday 27 Apr 2017 18:31:36 Dale wrote: > I have it on a small post-it-note stuck on the side of my monitor. I'm > not sure, may have been Neil or Alan, that posted it this way. > > Reboot Even If System Utterly Broken. Another mnemonic: B U S I E R <=<=<=<=<=< Of course, you're meant t

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get memtest onto a USB drive

2017-04-28 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a nearly new machine which is already showing signs of hardware > failure. I'd like to check its memory, for which memtest86+ seems suitable. > But I can't install it via portage because this is a UEFI machine and so its > boot partition is vfat; th

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get memtest onto a USB drive

2017-04-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 28 Apr 2017 22:33:35 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a nearly new machine which is already showing signs of hardware > failure. I'd like to check its memory, for which memtest86+ seems > suitable. But I can't install it via portage because this is a UEFI > machine and so i

[gentoo-user] How to get memtest onto a USB drive

2017-04-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I have a nearly new machine which is already showing signs of hardware failure. I'd like to check its memory, for which memtest86+ seems suitable. But I can't install it via portage because this is a UEFI machine and so its boot partition is vfat; the install phase fails because sym

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On April 28, 2017 9:51:07 PM GMT+02:00, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >Hello, Mick and the whole World. > >On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 00:00:07 +0100, Mick wrote: > >> Have a look here in case it helps: > >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#RAID > >In the end, I went with grub2, and it has taken a lo

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-28 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Mick and the whole World. On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 00:00:07 +0100, Mick wrote: > Have a look here in case it helps: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#RAID In the end, I went with grub2, and it has taken a lot of effort to get not very far. Grub's documentation is suboptimal. T

[gentoo-user] Re: In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator

2017-04-28 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-04-28 10:10, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > No. I meant you can't enable them *all* globally, meaning opengl, > gles, egl, etc. It's kind of the same situation as with GUI toolkits, > you can't enable them all globally because some packages support more > than one that you have to choose at c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator

2017-04-28 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On 04/26/2017 03:11 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2017-04-26 12:26, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: My USE_FLAGS (make.conf) are: USE="nvidia X lua sdl mp3 flac jack alsa gtk cairo sndfile qt3support kpathsea gif tga jpeg png jpeg2k mad dvb dvdr encode lzo bzip2 ogg sox v4l v4l2 vorbis x264 x265 zsh

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc with graphite flag?

2017-04-28 Thread Corbin Bird
On 04/28/2017 02:08 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > In the past, there used to be dire warnings about the difficulty of > installing gcc with graphite. Have things become easier with 5.4.0? > Here's a "dry run" output... > >

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc with graphite flag?

2017-04-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/28/2017 10:08 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: In the past, there used to be dire warnings about the difficulty of installing gcc with graphite. Have things become easier with 5.4.0? I don't remember any issues with it, even with 4.9.

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you manage manually compiled software?

2017-04-28 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 04/27/2017 07:19 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/27/2017 09:33 PM, Danny YUE wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I am compiling RISC-V tools...I am just curious how do you manage your >> manually compiled software? > > Don't, write an ebuild for it. > > > +1 for this. Even if it's a somewhat amateu

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you manage manually compiled software?

2017-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:19:03 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > I am compiling RISC-V tools...I am just curious how do you manage your > > manually compiled software? > > Don't, write an ebuild for it. After checking bgo to see if anyone else has already invented that particular wheel. -- N

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you manage manually compiled software?

2017-04-28 Thread Danny YUE
On 2017-04-28 02:19, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/27/2017 09:33 PM, Danny YUE wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I am compiling RISC-V tools...I am just curious how do you manage your >> manually compiled software? > > Don't, write an ebuild for it. Well, since everyone is recommending the "correct Ge

[gentoo-user] gcc with graphite flag?

2017-04-28 Thread Walter Dnes
In the past, there used to be dire warnings about the difficulty of installing gcc with graphite. Have things become easier with 5.4.0? Here's a "dry run" output... [i660][waltdnes][~] USE="graphite" emerge -pv gcc Th