Any official Gentoo-OSX thread?

stonent · Veteran Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 1139 Location: Texas

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.weekly-news/80

Seeing as this was just announced.

Anticipat3 · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2003 Posts: 35 Location: Madison, WI

Not that I've found... this is a very exciting day for me. Now I don't have to choose between the sexy OSX and 1337 ppc linux... I will run all the tasty GNU apps on the tasty OSX.

Already installed it, and everything seems to be working great... not many packages unmasked for macos though! I'm sure that'll change in a couple weeks once folks figure out what does and doesn't work.

Rock on!
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aethyr · Veteran Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: NYC

I'm sort of curious as to how it works because I've been debating buying an iBook vs. x86 subnotebook and this could influence my decision.

Does it use a fork of the portage tree or does it use the regular tree? How nicely does it play along with the rest of the OS X system?

JohnGalt00 · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 38

BennyP · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 6:09 am Post subject:

I'm very excited to get my fingers messy with this one! ill be buying an ibook soon and will intsall this asap.

my plan is to run osx off the internal harddrive, and then eventually purchase a faster .xternal drive to run pure gentoo from. my goal is to have a portable sound studio for live music production! I cant wait to start bugtesting!
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cmoad · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 2:12 pm Post subject:

I've been messing with it and it seems to be running fine. "emerge sync" takes abnormally long, and a lot of packages don't work. You can see on the gentoo wiki page how to add the macos keyword to an ebuild. This can get old since you have to add the keyword to the package you want as well as all dependencies.
I agree we should add a forum topic for just gentoo-osx. I can't wait until they add support for native osx applications!

- Charlie

Anticipat3 · n00b Joined: 20 Dec 2003 Posts: 35 Location: Madison, WI

Yeah, that would be sweet... just "Emerge Colloquy" and it downloads and installs the .app file... would be cool.

I've been playing with it since yesterday, and since finally getting it working, things seem to be going OK -- as stated above, very few things are unmasked yet, but I'm sure within a month or so the basics will be unmasked.
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ruben · Guru Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 462

Anyone knows whether this also works on Jaguar ?
And if not, what the issues are and how hard it would be to get it working ?

richwareham · n00b Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 6

cmoad · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 6:40 pm Post subject:

From their site they have a ton of docs here.

I usually just look at an existing ebuild that is similar, but obviously that will be hard for you. Good luck and keep us posted.

- Charlie

mean · Guru Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 313

Things are masked but that does no mean it does not work
I have fairly good sucess till now to emerge avidemux dependancies
(mad,a52dec,sdl for Xv display...)

The only one that failed is libvorbis out of about 10

daSilVetZ · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 66 Location: CT

just finished installing gentoo-macos, seems flawless for now, i'm very impressed. sure, alot of builds are masked but as previously pointed out, that does not mean they won't work. i just emerged links, worked like a charm.
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aethyr · Veteran Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: NYC

What's that business about

cmoad · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:15 pm Post subject:

I saw mention that there was a case sensitivity issue in HFS, but I have not seemed to have any problems. I am guessing they recommend you put the portage tree on this UFS volume, but does anyone know if you "really" have to?

ChrisParrott · n00b Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 1 Location: Kyle, TX

Kudos to the Gentoo Mac OS X team for all their hard work!

From looking at the following page on the Gentoo Wiki:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/Gentoo_MacOS_compiles

It seems that they would like for users to report packages known to work on macos but happen to be missing the macos keyword in the ebuild. However, the Bugzilla infrastructure at bugs.gentoo.org does not seem to have been updated to specifically mention MacOS yet. Should we just use "PPC" for the hardware platform, and "All" for the operating system? Or, should we early birds just wait until they get around to updating Bugzilla?

At any rate, I would like to mention that the tin-1.6.2 ebuild builds out of the box just fine for me on Panther, with USE="ipv6 ncurses".

+chris

P.S. For what it's worth, my entire filesystem is HFS+, and I have not encountered any problems with Gentoo so far. I did have to rerun the bootstrap-macos.sh script after doing an "emerge sync" before everything seemed to work just right for me, though. Prior to that, I had problems with emerge not being able to find dependencies like virtual/os-headers and other general weirdness. (Sorry, I didn't save any of those error messages...)

aethyr · Veteran Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: NYC

richwareham · n00b Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 6

atom · Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:49 am Post subject:

milligig · n00b Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 3 Location: Dallas, TX

After fighting with fink and portage for a couple of hours, I finally got rid of every last trace of fink and portage seemed to install correctly. (PowerBook G4, 1GHz, 10.3.4)

Now I'm getting errors when trying to emerge system. I managed to get one package emerged without problems (autoconf i think), but ever other package i've tried has failed miserably.

wget fails with stdio.h missing. I had gotten this error a couple months back when i first installed gentoo on my desktop and it fixed itself after a kernel recompile. So, I've tried re-installing developer tools and running the bootstrap-macos.sh script again. I haven't reinstalled portage from scratch yet because frankly, I'm tired of looking at the incredibly slow installation program.

other packages I've tried:
nano - fails because of no glib, glib masked
gentoolkit - ncurses include-path not found

Has anyone found a solution to any of these? I'm open to suggestions.

daSilVetZ · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 66 Location: CT

milligig · n00b Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 3 Location: Dallas, TX

Whoops!

I had only installed DeveloperTools.pkg on my system earlier because I didn't have a need for anything more elaborate. Installing DeveloperTools.mpkg cleared up all my errors.

I suppose sometimes the asking of the question itself helps shed light on the answers.

noobroot · n00b Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 5

ok so i wasnt sure as to which thread i shuld post this under but here goes...

im completely unfamiliar with gentoo :oops:

and have just about got the hang of fink and os x...used this site>>>gentoo-wiki.com to gimme a lil more info as to how i can install but i seem to be having some problems. got up to this part and well im kinda unsure where to go from here....

* >>> Injecting sys-darwin/X11-4.3.99 ... [ok ]

Portage successfully tamed your Panther.

typed in #emerge system but it sais command not found :roll:

where have i gone rong :?:

milligig · n00b Joined: 21 Jul 2004 Posts: 3 Location: Dallas, TX

Are you trying to use terminal to run the command or X11? I ran in to the problem of emerge not being in my path in X11. In terminal.app type

# which emerge

if it doens't come up with anything, then I think you're having issues with fink being installed. Just as a test, I searched for all files with fink in the name (using finder) and dragged them over to the trash (for safe keeping

). I then got rid of all the portage files using the uninstall info from the wiki page. Portage should install correctly after that, but obviously you won't be able to use fink unless you get rid of portage and pull fink back out of the trash (you will loose all your apps installed with fink).

There is a way to do this without getting rid of fink, by modifying some config files or something, but I could never find out how. You might try poking around the irc channel.

I fought this same problem for a long time. Good luck.

pindar · Apprentice Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Posts: 220

I had the same problem. emerge is installed in /usr/lib/portage/bin , and that's usually not in your $PATH (this has nothing to do with fink, AFAIK). So in order to use emerge, you can either give the entire path or add the directory to your path. I use zsh, so I had to add it in .zshenv; I forget which file it is when you're using bash (.profile maybe?), but that won't be difficult to figure out. I had to re-run boostrap-macos.sh after doing emerge-sync, but after that, everything ran just fine:

AvantLegion · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 59

For me, "emerge sync" just gives me a stream of "Failed cache update" errors for every ebuild.

I'm guessing I need to create that image, but the wiki doesn't explain crap.