HowTo Compile In Gentoo
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Introduction
Gentoo is known for choices. Unfortunately, some choices require more labor than others. As such, aMule comes in a variety of versions and installation methods based on what version of wxGTK you decide to use...
Methods of Installation
amule-1.2.8.ebuild
This ebuild is marked as stable for x86 platforms.
This aMule version is well over a year old and lacks many features. It depends on wxGTK compiled against gtk v1. aMule devs highly discourage use of this version but if you insist upon using it, simply emerge it. Be warned that support is probably limited.
Dependancies: >=x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2-r2; >=net-misc/curl-7.11.0; >=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.1
Status: No further development; in Portage
amule-2.0.0_rc7.ebuild
This ebuild is marked as unstable for all architectures.
This is an aging version. This is the last version that will compile with wxGTK compiled against gtk v1. It also compiles with wxGTK 2.4.2 or greater compiled against gtk v2.
Dependancies: >=x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.2-r2; >=net-misc/curl-7.11.0; >=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.1; >=media-libs/gd-2.0.26
Status: No further development; in Portage
amule-2.0.3.ebuild
This ebuild is marked as unstable for all architectures.
This ebuild matches the most current, stable aMule release.
Dependancies: >=x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.0; >=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.2; sys-devel/gettext; >=media-libs/libpng-1.2.8; >=media-libs/gd-2.0.32
Status: No further development; in Portage
amule-cvs
This ebuild is marked as unstable for all architectures.
Not intended for the general public. If you'd like to test out the daily development snapshot, then this is the version for you.
Dependancies: >=x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.0; >=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.1; >=media-libs/gd-2.0.26; >=media-libs/libpng-1.2.0
Status: In development; not in Portage; requires portage overlay
Installation instructions
amule-1.2.8.ebuild
1. Modify /etc/portage/package.use to suit your needs (please note that debug is enabled regardless of USE flag). Remember, since this version requires wxGTK compiled against gtk v1, you must compile without gtk2.
net-p2p/amule debug gtk2 nls remote
2. Emerge package.
$ emerge amule -pv $ emerge amule
amule-2.0.0_rc7.ebuild
1. Add packages to package.keywords
echo "net-p2p/amule ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords echo "x11-libs/wxGTK ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
2. Modify /etc/portage/package.use to suit your needs (please note that debug is enabled regardless of USE flag).
net-p2p/amule debug gtk2 nls remote stats unicode gd
3. Emerge package.
$ emerge amule -pv $ emerge amule
amule-2.0.3.ebuild
1. Add packages to package.keywords
echo "net-p2p/amule ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords echo "x11-libs/wxGTK ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
2. Modify /etc/portage/package.use to suit your needs (please note that debug is enabled regardless of USE flag).
net-p2p/amule amuled debug gtk2 nls remote stats unicode
3. Emerge package.
$ emerge amule -pv $ emerge amule
amule-cvs
The current ebuilds for aMule CVS can be found here. Download it and continue with this wiki article.
1. Define PORTAGE_OVERLAY. Open up /etc/make.conf with your favourite text editor and define the PORTAGE_OVERLAY variable. The default is:
PORTAGE_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
2. Create overlay for amule-cvs-2
$ mkdir -p {PORTAGE_OVERLAY}/net-p2p/amule-cvs-2
3. Add to package.keywords
echo "net-p2p/amule-cvs ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
4. Copy amule-cvs-2.ebuild to {PORTAGE_OVERLAY}/net-p2p/amule-cvs-2
5. Change directory
$ cd {PORTAGE_OVERLAY}/net-p2p/amule-cvs-2/
6. Touch file's timestamp
$ touch amule-cvs-2.ebuild
7. Digest ebuild
$ ebuild amule-cvs-2.ebuild digest
8. Review installation flags
$ emerge amule-cvs -pv
9. Modify /etc/portage/package.use to suit your needs (please note that debug is enabled regardless of USE flag)
net-p2p/amule-svn X -amuled -debug gtk2 kad nls -nosystray -optimize -remote -remote-gui -stats unicode
10. Install aMule CVS
$ emerge amule-cvs
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do "emerge amule-cvs -pv" before installing to determine how you want to compile aMule.
Information on wxGTK
wxGTK 2.5.3 - 2.6.0
If you want to use amuled then you need, at least, wxGTK2.5.3. Currently, the only version not hard masked in Portage is wxGTK 2.4.2 due to problems when compiling with OpenGL support in wxGTK 2.5.3. But as aMule is no 3D egoshooter, we can safely disable OpenGL support and use it anyway. To do so enter the following into a console as root:
mkdir /etc/portage (this may give you an error if the directory already exists, just ignore that)
echo 'x11-libs/wxGTK ~x86' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
If you want to use GTK1.2 (recommended):
echo 'x11-libs/wxGTK -gtk2 -unicode -opengl' >> /etc/portage/package.use
If you want to use GTK2 (not thoroughly tested yet):
echo 'x11-libs/wxGTK -unicode -opengl' >> /etc/portage/package.use
emerge -av wxGTK
Note: There are two ebuilds available for amule-cvs. A version with >=wxGTK 2.6.0 support and a version with <=wxGTK 2.5.3 support. Please use the correct version depending on what version of wxGTK you choose to use. Of course, wxGTK >= 2.6.0 is recommended.
wxGTK 2.4.2
If you don't want to use the aMule daemon, wxGTK2.4.2 is just fine for. You only need to tell it that it should link against GTK1.2. To do this grab a console and enter (as root):
mkdir /etc/portage (this may give you an error if the directory already exists, just ignore that)
echo 'x11-libs/wxGTK -gtk2 -unicode' >> /etc/portage/package.use
emerge -av wxGTK
This should (re-)emerge wxGTK2.4.2 linked against GTK1.2. Now you can go on to compiling aMule.
