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My machine is so completely broken right now I can't open any new |
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terminal sessions. |
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This is because I stupidly tried to toggle tinfo useflag in a desperate |
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attempt to get everything in my portage tree working again. |
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Why now did nothing in my portage tree build? |
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It wasn't building for two reasons: |
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1. My machine is not correctly configured to build 32 bit executables, |
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mainly because I cannot find a 32 bit version of ncurses that ld is |
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willing to acknowledge the existence of. |
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2. LD cannot find ncurses, -- It simply can't, in 64 bit mode either. |
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That is the only error message it ever gives and vast amount of effort |
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spent in sessions over the last year and a half have failed to find any |
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solution. I only installed Gentoo on this machine four and a half years |
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ago so it's hard to imagine what could have gotten this royally foobar |
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in such a short period. |
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I am an enthuseastic supporter of multilib, I even tried to set it up |
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myself but failed due, once again, to ncurses. |
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I was running my system as usual, running updates every week or two, no |
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major issues since the libav clusterfuck a few months ago. (Libav is a |
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cult not a software project). The ncurses problem has been a low-level |
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issue for a long time but, with tinfo set, 99% of packages worked. |
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And then portage did two things. |
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1. It masked emul-linux -- A move that I support, it's time to see that go. |
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2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit enabled. |
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ALARM: ABI_x86 should be set in exactly one place: |
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/etc/portage/make.conf and nowhere else. But, nevertheless, ABI_x86 WAS |
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set which broke the profile because my system cannot compile 32 bit |
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executables. =( I tried the no-multilib profile but it didn't have a |
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number of essential useflags and was foobar. |
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Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 |
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packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do |
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that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed out |
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the changes to portage, obviously without any testing whatsoever, that |
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broke my system so comprehensively is tortured, executed, butchered, and |
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then cremated. |
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-- |
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IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. |
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