On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Damian <damian.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > What does it means when the ~amd64 is not one of the keywords used to > mask the package? > > The problem I have is that I would like to install amarok 2 but I > cannot unmask it by accepting ~amd64. It is safe to unmask it using > ~x86 even though my system is amd64?
Before trying to emerge Amarok 2, create (or edit) the file /etc/portage/env/dev-db/mysql and add these lines: CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -ggdb -pipe -DPIC -fPIC" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -DPIC -fPIC" (change the march & other options to match what you normally use for CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS), the important part here is -DPIC -fPIC then re-emerge mysql if you've already got it installed. After that Amarok should build successfully. If you don't do that, you will waste your time.
