[Wylug-discuss] Portage build options

[Dylan]

I'm not talking about the USE flags, but what you say about the separate
file sounds promising. I'll explain my exact problem:

1. I emerged mplayer normally, no hassle.
2. Starting mplayer resulted in an error, which included something about
the build architecture being wrong ie it was compiled for the incorrect cpu
3. I found the solution, to recompile from source with "./configure
--something_something _something", so I downloaded the source manually
and compiled it
4. I had now compiled a working mplayer, but it's not part of Portage

Basically, I'm talking about the something_something part. Even though I
have the generic USE flags set up perfectly, I want to be able to set
that specific option for the compile of mplayer using Portage.

Dylan Bodington

HauntedUnix wrote:

>Not sure what you mean by build options. If you mean USE flags, you can
>specify those like USE="Foo bar baz" emerge package.
>Also - I forget the file, but you can edit a file for a specific
>program's use variables.
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>Hope this helps,
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>Alex
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>On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:39:32PM +0000, Dylan wrote:
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>>Is it possible to specify the build options of a particular package
>>using Portage?
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>>I've been having problems with mplayer, which were solved by recompiling
>>from a downloaded source and copying over the emerged package. However,
>>I'm assuming that re-emerging mplayer will bring the problem back.
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>>Dylan Bodington
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