[clue-tech] gentoo, AMD64, gnumeric and excel

[Dave Price]

On 8/10/06, Ken MacFerrin <lists at macferrin.com> wrote:
>
> Nothing to be alarmed about here.. It's just telling you that this new
> version of gnumeric has a required dependency called goffice that's also
> "masked" for testing.  Use this command to "unmask" the goffice package:
> # echo "x11-libs/goffice ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
>
> and then try this again to install:
> # emerge -a gnumeric
>
> The portage system will install the version of a package that's marked
> "stable" by default but you can selectively upgrade to the latest
> "testing" version of a package by unmasking it in your
> /etc/portage/package.keywords file.  This is a similar concept to the
> Debian testing/unstable repositories and is helpful if you want the very
> latest release of a package or for packages you'd like to install but
> don't have a "stable" candidate yet.  emerge is a pretty robust tool
> with plenty of options to help maintain your system.  I'd recommend
> reading up on it (also check out the gentoolkit programs):
> http://linuxreviews.org/gentoo/emerge/
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Masked
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoolkit.xml
>
> One thing that does look a little strange from your output is the
> "(masked by: ~x86 keyword)" part.  If you're running an AMD64 system it
> should have been compiled with the "amd64" flag.  Please post the
> contents of your /etc/make.conf file.
> -Ken

Here is my /etc/make.conf
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that
automatically built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
#CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS=""
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=""
USE=" X alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2
cdr cli crypt ctype cups dba eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd
ethereal exif expat fam fastbuild foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect
fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml
guile idn imlib ipv6 jpeg kde kernel_linux lcms libg++ libwww mad
memlimit mikmod mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl
oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix python qt quicktime readline samba
sdl session simplexml slang soap sockets spell spl ssl tcltk tcpd tiff
tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev userland_GNU vorbis
x86 xml xml2 xmms xsl xv zlib"
FEATURES=""
.................
Gnumeric is now built and opening XLS files - thank you.

I am completely confused by the xorg.conf - X work pretty well, but
there is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf  - only an example one...

I am trying to get my scroll-wheel to work, which should be easy, but
I keep breaking my X completely if I try to make changes to the
example and rename it as xorg.conf - is there another settings file
that is being used?


-- 
aloha,
dave