On Wed, 23 May 2007, ken jones wrote:

I got HAPPYMEAL to work. My sparc64 is on the WEB! Here is result of ls -lad /etc/make.profile ----------snip---------- kjones-sun2 ~ # ls -lad /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 May 17 12:45 /etc/make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2006.1 -----------end snip--------- Here is result of emerge xorg-x11: How do I install from the tar.bz file? What is gentoo's equivalent of Red Hat's rpm?

That's what gentoo's portage system (via the "emerge" command) does for you - downloads the tarballs, builds, installs, and keeps a record of what's installed under /var/db/pkg/<category>/<package>/ . Well, when it works. :) Look at /usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/*.ebuild, its fairly easy to get the gist of it if you know shell syntax. Did you do "emerge --sync" like some others suggested? I see a few libpng versions available, up to 1.2.16, $ ls /usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/*.ebuild /usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/libpng-1.2.14-r1.ebuild /usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/libpng-1.2.14.ebuild /usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/libpng-1.2.15.ebuild /usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/libpng-1.2.16.ebuild

--------------snip------------- Lastly, how do you know that HAPPYMEAL is in the sun-hme module? Where is the information indicating the functionality contained in each module?

In the "make menuconfig" [Help] items. Also in menuconfig, you can search all the help text by typing "/" and entering some text. Generally, once you have your system configured to your satisfaction, you keep a copy of the kernel .config, and use that the next time you upgrade the kernel by copying it to the new kernel tree and doing "make oldconfig". -Jamie