emerge is unreliable for Windows x64

[Patrick Spendrin]

Am 26.02.2012 21:44, schrieb Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas:
> On Sunday 26 February 2012, Patrick Spendrin wrote:
>> Am 26.02.2012 19:54, schrieb Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to setup a development environment for KDE in a
>>> Windows7-64bit machine, without success so far. I've configured my
>>> "kdesettings.bat" with KDECOMPILER=mingw4 and EMERGE_ARCHITECTURE=x64.
>>>
>>> The problem is that some libraries have the wrong architecture.
>>
>> Can you please edit your kdesettings.bat and add EMERGE_SOURCEONLY=True
>> in there? this should build all packages for you and won't rely on
>> binary packages at all (except for tools).
> 
> I've already tried that way yesterday, and didn't work either. I've sent a 
> report about it: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.windows/4081
> 
> I've already wasted my whole weekend, and it is clear for me that there is a 
> severe bug in emerge, when it ignores the EMERGE_ARCHITECTURE setting. I don't 
> have time now to recompile everything today, or in the next work days, so I 
> need to put my project on hold and wait until the next weekend.
> 
> I don't mind to invest all this time, if there is a chance that this problem 
> will be fixed. Are you or anybody else in kde-windows going to recognize the 
> bug, and maybe take a look to it? Or my only hope is to compile the whole open 
> source world from scratch? If so, then please state in the documentation that 
> EMERGE_SOURCEONLY is mandatory now for x64.

For you it is mandatory from now on, for everybody else I fixed it in
emerge kde-4.8 and python3.
I would recommend that if you plan to recompile the whole open source
world from scratch, to also include all gtk/gtkmm etc. packages,
including firefox, thunderbird, gimp and many more. I am truely sorry
that emerge doesn't provide these, but maybe if you sent some more mails
like these to this mailing list we will ....?

> 
> My last test has been starting from scratch, and trying to emerge a single 
> package with these steps:
> 1. create an empty kderoot directory
> 2. git clone the emerge repository
> 3. git checkout the kde-4.8 branch
> 4. edit "etc/kdesettings.bat"
> 5. emerge 7zip 
> 6. emerge openssl

The missing step here is to install a compiler. Without that compiler,
emerge assumed to use the 32bit version.

> 
> The last step also fetched zlib 1.2.5-1 from Sourceforge. Instead of the x64 
> packages, both zlib and openssl are the x86 ones. I've already checked that 
> the right x64 libraries are available for download at:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/kde-windows/files/zlib/1.2.5-1/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/kde-windows/files/openssl/1.0.0d/
> 
> I have detailed logs of this test with EMERGE_VERBOSE=3. If there is somebody 
> interested, please just ask.

Just to led you know:
Your rude tone doesn't help in us fixing bugs. We are doing this mostly
in our spare time, we all do have a family and other things to do. If
you want to achieve something, please try to be nice as we are trying to
be nice.

> 
> Regards,
> Pedro

regards,
Patrick