After some weeks of frustration with giflib and emerge -uDp world I have a
question.

Normally I need to unmerge giflib before doing emerge -uD world because of
a block. At the end of the re-emerge of giflib it says.

* You had the gif USE flag set, so the binary from this library
* is your gif binary. If you would prefer to use the binary from
* the ungif library, please unset the gif USE toggle, and remerge
* both this and libungif

The thing is I don't actually have the gif USE flag set at all. eg..
from /etc/make.conf

USE="x86 apm arts avi berkdb crypt encode foomaticdb gdbm gpm X oss gtk
gtk2 imlib jpeg gtkhtml gnome qt kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg
dvd alsa cdr dvdr dvdread ncurses nls oggvorbis mp3 opengl pam pdflib png
python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype xml2 xmms
xv zlib maildir ssl imap mysql pam-mysql sasl nptl nptlonly matroska
win32codecs nvidia vcd aalib a52 dxr3 ffmpeg fbcon speex sse browserplugin
userlocales unicode cjk xvid"

Is there anything else in there that forces the gif flag to be set? Should
I add -gif into make.conf?
Many thanks for any help.

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Jafar As-Sadiq Calley wrote:
> After some weeks of frustration with giflib and emerge -uDp world I have a
> question.
>
> Normally I need to unmerge giflib before doing emerge -uD world because of
> a block. At the end of the re-emerge of giflib it says.
>
> * You had the gif USE flag set, so the binary from this library
> * is your gif binary. If you would prefer to use the binary from
> * the ungif library, please unset the gif USE toggle, and remerge
> * both this and libungif
>
> The thing is I don't actually have the gif USE flag set at all. eg..
> from /etc/make.conf
>
> USE="x86 apm arts avi berkdb crypt encode foomaticdb gdbm gpm X oss gtk
> gtk2 imlib jpeg gtkhtml gnome qt kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg
> dvd alsa cdr dvdr dvdread ncurses nls oggvorbis mp3 opengl pam pdflib png
> python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype xml2 xmms
> xv zlib maildir ssl imap mysql pam-mysql sasl nptl nptlonly matroska
> win32codecs nvidia vcd aalib a52 dxr3 ffmpeg fbcon speex sse browserplugin
> userlocales unicode cjk xvid"
>
> Is there anything else in there that forces the gif flag to be set? Should
> I add -gif into make.conf?
> Many thanks for any help.
>
there is a master .conf file that portage uses, extra flags are added
based on installed packages that may depend on it, use the portage
documentation to remove the flag. i don't think your make.conf will
ovveride the overlay file.

Jafar As-Sadiq Calley wrote:
> The thing is I don't actually have the gif USE flag set at all. eg..
> from /etc/make.conf

It is set in /etc/make.profile/make.defaults

If you want to change it, set "-gif" in /etc/make.conf

Jafar As-Sadiq Calley wrote:

> After some weeks of frustration with giflib and emerge -uDp world I have a
> question.
>
> Normally I need to unmerge giflib before doing emerge -uD world because of
> a block. At the end of the re-emerge of giflib it says.

emerge -C libungif
emerge giflib
re-emerge imlib

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85720#c34

Then everything should be kosher. The block goes away. kdegraphics will
still compile.

Peter
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On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:02:02 +0000, Peter Kelly wrote:

> Jafar As-Sadiq Calley wrote:
>
>> After some weeks of frustration with giflib and emerge -uDp world I have a
>> question.
>>
>> Normally I need to unmerge giflib before doing emerge -uD world because of
>> a block. At the end of the re-emerge of giflib it says.
>
> emerge -C libungif
> emerge giflib
> re-emerge imlib
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85720#c34
>
> Then everything should be kosher. The block goes away. kdegraphics will
> still compile.

Great! That did the trick. Thanks Peter

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