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Frank Peters posted on Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:54:37 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> You have to make a symbolic link, /etc/make.profile, to a particular |
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> profile in /usr/share/portage/profiles, i.e. either the multilib (64/32) |
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> or the no-multilib (64-bit) profile. Also, the USE flag "multilib" |
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> indicates to the compiler that both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries should |
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> be built. |
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The newer way to do it is to use eselect profile. AFAIK that's what the |
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manual says to do now days as well. But all that does is (with list) list |
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the suitable profiles, so you don't get mixed up and select a stub that's |
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not intended to be used directly, and (with set) set the symlink one used |
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to set manually. |
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But that's something only an old-timer that was also keeping reasonably |
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updated with the current manual and/or automated way of doing things could |
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be expected to know. Otherwise, old timers can continue setting the |
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symlink manually as they always did, and newbies might very well not |
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understand that all it is is a symlink after all, in the first place. |
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I'm sure it /does/ categorize me as cranky old-timer, but I must admit to |
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feeling a bit sad about that loss of "bare metal" configuring knowledge, |
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amongst the newbies. Oh, well, at least the graphical installer project |
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got hung up somewhere along the way and isn't considered viable any more. |
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To many of us old-timer Gentooers, that was SACRILEGE! There's /supposed/ |
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to be a bit of an entry barrier with Gentoo, as it never was meant as a |
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hand-holding distribution, and the graphical installer... just didn't fit |
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with what Gentoo /is/ (or at least used to be... and I can't say I'm sad |
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to see it hewing to its roots once again). |
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> Check the Gentoo manual for all the details. You'd best get used to |
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> reading the manual early. Everything is in there. |
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Dale's been a Gentoo (x86) user for some time and with me is one of the |
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few Gentoo users active on the KDE lists. So he should (/should/, see the |
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above lament about the graphical installer, etc, but I /think/ he does) |
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know all about the handbook. He's only new to amd64. |
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That said, strongly agreed with the sentiment. Anybody who neglects the |
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handbook or only reads the install section is doing themselves a HUGE |
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disservice, making the going on Gentoo **FAR** harder than it needs to be, |
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for sure. That certainly applies to experienced folks as well, |
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particularly when they're doing a new install, as things change over the |
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years, and one can save themselves a LOT of trouble by re-familiarizing |
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themselves with the handbook on occasion, with a new install being about |
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as good an occasion as they come, /especially/ when it's to a new arch, as |
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is the case here. |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |