issues when using emerge

[Kevin Funk]

On Monday, February 08, 2016 01:22:52 PM Sven Brauch wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> When using emerge recently for the first time, I hit a few issues which
> I'm not sure how to resolve properly. This is my "if you use emerge on a
> fresh windows 7 install and follow the guide, you will probably hit
> those issues" list:

First of all, thanks for your feedback!
 
>  * Since I am apparently not allowed to edit [1]: in the beginning I had
> to run
> 	Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
> to get powershell to execute the kdeenv script. Maybe that should be
> added to the wiki page.

I don't use PS, Hannah probably knows more here.

>  * Building with ninja is enabled by default, but ninja didn't build for
> me (if you want, I can check out the error again). Setting this to false
> used jom instead which worked fine.

We fixed that later the day. We download the ninja binary now.

>  * While building frameworks (I think) something tried to emerge
> "pyyaml" which failed (and still fails). Apparently it's not really
> needed though, I could just continue without it.

I'm not sure what error you got. In my case Emerge tried to look up pip.exe in 
the wrong location. Fixed that now.
 
>  * In a fresh setup, emerging nasm fails:
> emerge warning: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> 'C:\\kderoot\\build\\dev-util\\nasm\\image-msvc2015-RelWithDebInfo-2.11.08\\
> nasm-2.11.08' I played around with this a bit but I'm very confused by when
> which directory exists where or why the portage file might be wrong. I
> ended up copying the relevant files by hand.

Fixed that, too.

>  * In general: all my packages (even binary ones) have
> image-msvc2015-RelWithDebInfo-$version as their image directory name.
> Some things, esp. emerge --package, seem to look for a directory named
> "image" as the image dir name for binary packages, which fails. I worked
> around this by commenting the "if package.buildSystemType == 'binary':"
> in CollectionPackagerBase.py, but that is certainly not the proper fix?
> I guess this is somehow broken and nobody noticed because the affected
> binary packages are rarely "rebuilt" :)
> 
>  * Less important: It's sometimes hard to know what emerge is currently
> doing, it would be helpful if it would display the name of the package
> it is currently building in the window title or so. Also, the -v flags
> don't seem to flush stdout (even though the code does stdout.flush() ?!)
> so you will only see progress / warning when everything is done :/

Hm, we^WI already pushed a lot of changes there in the last weeks. Emerge now 
at least prints every action it does (which package is currently handled, 
whether you are at checkout, compile, install step, etc.)

Feel free to provide more patches to improve the situation.

> I am happy to submit patches for those problems if you point me at the
> proper way to fix them.

Well, just put patches on Phab.

> In the end, it all worked though and wasn't nearly as difficult as I
> would have imagined -- so very nice work on the tooling, thanks!


Great to hear that,

Cheers,
Kevin

> Best,
> Sven
> 
> ________
> [1] https://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/Windows/emerge

-- 
Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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