Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-17 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
Mike Frysinger wrote: > as a reminder, NEVER utilize USE=pic in your package unless you know > exactly what it's for and you're sure you need it I figured this use flag should be used to ensure libraries are built as PIC (i.e. conform to the relevant ABI). This is a common problem on the media

[gentoo-dev] New Dev: Diego Pettenò (Flameeyes)

2005-04-17 Thread Jochen Maes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Blue all, Please welcome Flameeyes, Diego Pettenò, from italy to the team. He's been a busy boy in the linux world so i'll let him talk for himself here: "I'm a KDE (extragear) devel so I know how to handle KDE-related stuff such as installation pa

[gentoo-dev] New Dev Vibhav Garg (vgarg)

2005-04-17 Thread Jochen Maes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 yellow all, Last week i've added vgarg to the Java team, He's from india but lives in the US. (bad choice imho :-) ). He's a yoga-meditating Java monkey what seems to me an excellent mix. I'm sure some off u guys/gals will suck this up by stating t

[gentoo-dev] Portage management change

2005-04-17 Thread Marius Mauch
Hi everybody, As some of you may already know Nicholas Jones (carpaski), the portage lead till now, stepped down of that job recently for various reasons. This mail is intended to let people know how things will be handled in the future in portage-land. First, there will be no single replacement

Re: [gentoo-dev] Video4Linux and linux headers

2005-04-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 17 April 2005 08:07 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > Now what? I'm going to ask here what to do with this. I think the right way > should be adding v4l to base/use.mask and then -v4l on > default-linux/use.mask, as it's strictly-linux thing. this probably falls along side the USE r

[gentoo-dev] Video4Linux and linux headers

2005-04-17 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Hi, I don't remember why I started looking at avifile this night, but while I was at it, I found something which uncovers a bit of troubles with v4l useflag. Summarizing: v4l useflag enables Video4Linux support (usually webcams and tv cards) on many multimedia softwares (like avifile, but not o

[gentoo-dev] xchat-xsys 1.9.3 unmasked

2005-04-17 Thread Tony Vroon
Okay, thanks to testing the patch has been improved to a point where it works for everyone, on integrated video, PCI and AGP cards. It is now unmasked. ~x86 and ~amd64 can have fun with this. Could the early adopters please make sure they remerge the package so they have the latest patch. Thanks,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatically replace -mtune= with -mcpu= if not supported by gcc?!

2005-04-17 Thread Alec Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 17 April 2005 09:50 am, Philipp Hasse wrote: > >>This way it can be used to set the -mcpu and -mtune flags correctly. > > > not worth the added crap imho > -mike Better to have it fail and have the users fix their

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatically replace -mtune= with -mcpu= if not supported by gcc?!

2005-04-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 17 April 2005 09:50 am, Philipp Hasse wrote: > This way it can be used to set the -mcpu and -mtune flags correctly. not worth the added crap imho -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-irc/xchat-xsys: Test request for ~x86 & ~amd64 (patch updated)

2005-04-17 Thread Tony Vroon
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 12:33 +0100, Tony Vroon wrote: > The code in question has been replaced with a sysfs tree-walker that > should find the AGP video card in any system. If anyone out there has a > PCI-Express adapter, I'd like to know if this code finds it or not. Alright, I found the regressio

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Herbie Hopkins (Herbs)

2005-04-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:18:46 + Alex Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You German developers ... Someone has to stop you, and that project > falls to the British! :D Oh no, not again! -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-irc/xchat-xsys: Test request for ~x86 & ~amd64

2005-04-17 Thread Olivier Crête
Works here without problem On Sun, 2005-17-04 at 12:33 +0100, Tony Vroon wrote: > Could any xchat-xsys users that are not afraid of using an experimental > patch unmask version 1.9.3 with /etc/portage/package.unmask and see if > the /video output gives you the right information. > If I get 10 repo

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-irc/xchat-xsys: Test request for ~x86 & ~amd64

2005-04-17 Thread Homer Parker
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 12:33 +0100, Tony Vroon wrote: > Could any xchat-xsys users that are not afraid of using an experimental > patch unmask version 1.9.3 with /etc/portage/package.unmask and see if > the /video output gives you the right information. > If I get 10 reports that it works, I'll unma

Re: [gentoo-dev] reply-to munging

2005-04-17 Thread D. Wokan
Jason Wever wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Reply-to-All is evil. You should be using Reply-to-List. I know that I sure don't need to get the same email both on and off-list. Off-list emails should be reserved only for when you ex

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo as a development platform

2005-04-17 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Sunday 17 April 2005 03:03 CET Daniel Drake wrote: > Robert Paskowitz wrote: >[...] > > Having portage take your own tree from a particular user's > > home directory on the other hand seems like a bit of a stretch, and no > > necessarily all that useful. > > I would find this useful, but perhaps

[gentoo-dev] Re: New developer: Herbie Hopkins (Herbs)

2005-04-17 Thread Duncan
Jeffrey Forman posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:26:45 -0400: > On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 16:17 +0100, Tom Martin wrote: >> Herbie is proficient in C and Bash, and has made a number of patches for >> various projects already. He's from Essex, England, and he's finish

[gentoo-dev] Automatically replace -mtune= with -mcpu= if not supported by gcc?!

2005-04-17 Thread Philipp Hasse
Hi, I recently noticed that portage executes the file bashrc located in /etc/portage before every ebuild. This way it can be used to set the -mcpu and -mtune flags correctly. If you add the following to this file everything goes automatically: <--- SNIP ---> # Automatically replace -mtune= with -

[gentoo-dev] net-irc/xchat-xsys: Test request for ~x86 & ~amd64

2005-04-17 Thread Tony Vroon
Could any xchat-xsys users that are not afraid of using an experimental patch unmask version 1.9.3 with /etc/portage/package.unmask and see if the /video output gives you the right information. If I get 10 reports that it works, I'll unmask it and unleash it on ~x86 and ~amd64. (Any other arches wi