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Tortue
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 Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 1:32 am Post subject: [SOLVED] Pango fails to compile on RPi4 |
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Not sure I should write this message, but I will do it anyway.
My setup is a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8 Gb of RAM and two external hard drives that I simply use as a headless file server for the family. I followed the "64-bit Install" for both RPi3 and RPi4 guides on the Gentoo wiki, and installation went pretty smoothly. That was three months ago. I also I use my main box (Ryzen 5 2600) as a compiler helper with distcc, which accelerates the tasks a lot (maybe too much??). The RPi4 kernel was also compiled on that same main box, as per instructions on the wiki.
Then, in the last few weeks, pango failed to compile and with it, app-accessibility/at-spi2-core and gnome-base/libsrvg, which depend on pango. (By the way, I don't know why they are needed on a headless server, but that is another question). After some unsuccesful retries, I decided to disable distcc and reduce MAKEOPTS in /etc/portage/make.conf, like so:
From:
| Code: | MAKEOPTS="-j6"
FEATURES="distcc" |
To:
| Code: | MAKEOPTS="-j2"
#FEATURES="distcc" |
Pango emerged without problems with just "emerge -v pango", as well as the two other packages individually. I did not try it, but, once the pango problem was fixed, I guess I could have reverted back to the previous config in make.conf before emerging the last two packages.
Voilà. Hope this will help someone with the same problem.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 11:01 am Post subject: |
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Tortue,
Portage has a way to disable distcc or a per package basis.
That link will set you off on the right track.
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Tortue
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 12:49 am Post subject: |
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NeddySeagoon,
Thanks for the tip, I did not know that one.
So, if my understanding is correct, the deal would be to have a file like /etc/portage/env/nodistcc.conf that would contain the following:
| Code: | MAKEOPTS="-j2"
#FEATURES="distcc" |
and an entry in /etc/portage/package.env that would contain:
| Code: | | x11-libs/pango nodistcc.conf |
Is that right?
Since it was the first time I hit a problem with updating the RPi, I think the best was to use my method first, just to see if it works, and then use your tip in the future, to avoid playing with make.conf every time pango comes up for an update.
Thanks again!
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 3:30 am Post subject: |
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| That would be seen as a comment, and do nothing. You probably want:That is a directive that explicitly disables distcc. Note that I have not tested whether this particular feature can be reset this way, but this is the style that is used for other things that are incrementally updated/reduced. |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:52 am Post subject: |
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Hu,
That's correct. FEATURES is a cumulative environmental variable, like USE and unlike CFLAGS
Tortue,
The file names in /etc/portage/env can be anything. They need not end in .conf.
I have a nodistcc and a makeoptsj2 separately, since on smaller Raspberry Pis, some thing ran out of RAM with bigger MAKEOPTS
Portage understands a string of changes in /etc/portage/package.env
So I would write | Code: | | x11-libs/pango nodistcc makeoptsj2 |
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Tortue
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Hu, NeddySeagoon,
Thanks to both of you.
Yes, it is much more logical to use
than go the other way around.
My bad
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