running build.sh under gentoo

Matt Turner mattst88 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 3 20:04:30 PDT 2010


On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Matt Dew <matt at osource.org> wrote:
> Has anyone had luck getting build.sh to run on gentoo?
> It's something with gentoo's python I think.   I searched around but no luck.
>
> It dies in libxcb.
>
> ...
> ...
> /usr/bin/python ./c_client.py -p
> /home/matt/tmp/xorg.buildsh/lib64/python2.6/site-packages
> /home/matt/tmp/xorg.buildsh/share/xcb/dri2.xml
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "./c_client.py", line 1040, in <module>
>   module.resolve()
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/state.py", line 94, in resolve
>   item.resolve(self)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/xtypes.py", line
> 405, in resolve
>   self.reply.resolve(module)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/xtypes.py", line
> 369, in resolve
>   ComplexType.resolve(self, module)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/xtypes.py", line
> 296, in resolve
>   type = ListType(child, module.get_type(fkey), self)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/xtypes.py", line
> 163, in __init__
>   self.expr = Expression(elts[0] if len(elts) else elt, self)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/expr.py", line 70, in __init__
>   self.lhs = Expression(list(elt)[0], parent)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/expr.py", line 71, in __init__
>   self.rhs = Expression(list(elt)[1], parent)
>  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/expr.py", line 84, in __init__
>   raise Exception('XXX')
> Exception: XXX
> make[1]: *** [dri2.c] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/matt/xorg/modular/xcb/libxcb/src'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>
>
> Matt
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The standard way of building X from git on Gentoo is to use the
ebuilds available in the 'x11' layman overlay. This is a much simpler
and more maintainable solution.

Matt


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