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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating AMD64 17.0 profiles?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 08:35:05
Message-Id: 1f87f5f21ef3a3920cb15546cbbe17b4e564b408.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating AMD64 17.0 profiles? by Fabian Groffen
1 On Tue, 2020-11-10 at 08:55 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > On 09-11-2020 19:38:28 +0000, Alexey Sokolov wrote:
3 > > Hi Fabian
4 > > I tried to migrate my prefix to 17.1, and there are issues.
5 > >
6 > > 1) unsymlink-lib requires "--root ~/gentoo" and otherwise produces an
7 > > error "/usr/lib is a real directory! was the migration done already?"
8 >
9 > I think unsymlink-lib doesn't have Prefix support, but in addition,
10 > what unsymlink-lib is trying to achieve, is not a thing perhaps on
11 > Prefix.
12 >
13 > A prefix system (at least all of mine) doesn't have libXX or lib/XX
14 > (a.k.a. multilib) directories. The /usr-split was long ago removed,
15 > and thus what we have is:
16 >
17 > lib -> usr/lib
18 >
19 > Now, SYMLINK_LIB=no seems to split into lib and lib64, but lib64 does
20 > not exist on Prefix systems.
21 >
22
23 So what you're saying is that you've had the wrong value of SYMLINK_LIB
24 for ages, and now you've created a meaningless 17.1 profile that chnages
25 it but isn't actually supposed to change anything, correct?
26
27 --
28 Best regards,
29 Michał Górny

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