On Sunday 14 Sep 2014 17:16:09 Joseph wrote: > On 09/14/14 18:57, Samuli Suominen wrote: > >On 14/09/14 18:46, Joseph wrote: > >> I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver" > >> > >> checking for bc... no > >> > >> configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a > >> standard > >> > >> part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your > >> > >> vendor > >> > >> has grown a clue. > >> > >> What is "bc"? > > > >It's calculator application and it's listed as a dependency in the > >xscreensaver ebuild in the official Portage tree: > > > >ssuominen@null ~/gentoo-x86/x11-misc/xscreensaver $ grep sys-devel/bc > >*.ebuild > >xscreensaver-5.29.ebuild: sys-devel/bc > >xscreensaver-5.30.ebuild: sys-devel/bc > > > >So no way to "emerge xscreensaver" without having sys-devel/bc getting > >installed first. > > The problem was sys-devel/bc. I had it installed. > Re-emerging sys-devel/bc solved the problem.
This sounds like something was wrong/corrupt in your system. Did you re- emerge it with -1aDv? If not then unmerge it and then emerge it using -1, or just emerge xscreensaver, which ought to bring it in. To be honest there are lot of programs that depend on bcm so any of them would bring it in as a dependency. -- Regards, Mick
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