Re: A couple ppc-macos questions
David Bélanger <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:13:46PM -0400, Colin wrote: > I've got Portage running on Tiger.2 on a PowerBook G3 (Lombard) right > now, and it's working fine. But there are a few questions I'd like > to have answered. > > 1. Are we supposed to set USE flags for this platform? The official > guide didn't mention it, but I noticed some packages still had USE > options (saw this with emerge -v), so I've used some both in my > make.conf and at the command line. Is this OK? > > 2. There are a lot of masked packages, but I've noticed that stuff > is either masked with ~ppc or missing, and nothing with ~ppc-macos. > Is this a bug in Portage, or should I be using ~ppc to install masked > packages? > ~ppc implies ppc-linux... It has nothing to do with MacOS... A package without keywords means that it has not been tested or not been ported. You could always add the keyword and test yourself. > 3. Come to think of it, is there a way to find out why something is > masked? > > 4. CURL sucks. If the server returns a 404, that is saved into the > file, which spells disaster for 125 MB downloads over dial-up > (NeoOffice/J, not Gentoo but I used CURL). I emerged wget (USE="ipv6 > ssl"); what are the commands needed in make.conf to use wget instead > of CURL? > > 5. The CFLAG march doesn't seem to work on PPC. I have no problem > using mcpu instead, but what's the reason for gcc not marching on PPC? > > 6. Is there a gentoo-ppc-macos-user list, or is this it? (I > probably should have asked this one first!) > -- > Colin > -- > [email protected] mailing list > [email protected] I think. --- David Bélanger Web page: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/ Public key: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/public_key.txt -- [email protected] mailing list