[ale] Gentoo: emerge xfree fails

[Keith Hopkins]

Keith Hopkins wrote:
> tdfx_content.h:837: storage size of 'Stencil' isn't known
> "              838    "       "   " 'Scissor'  "      " <and so forth and so on...>
> 'Viewport'
> 'Stipple'
> 'Glide'
> make[5]: *** [tdfx_context.l] Error 1
> make[5]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r12/work/xc/lib/GL/mesa/src/drv/tdfx'
> 
> and the "Error 2"s continue backing up the source tree.
> 
>   I do have a Voodoo 3 in this machine, and the first suggestion was load the glide headers.  I "think" I did that, as next I "emerge glide-v3", but I received the same errors again as above on the next "emerge xfree".
> 
>   emerge -o xfree shows all deps are already installed.

   I finally found the bug in Gentoo's bugzilla (Bug 3735), when building xfree with USE=3dfx, where glide doesn't install the X headers because the build is dependant upon xfree already being installed.  Got to love circular logic.

-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith



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