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From: Jules Colding <colding@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2 (AMD64 users please help)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:05:42
Message-Id: 1122231540.20571.29.camel@omc-2.omesc.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2 (AMD64 users please help) by Bob Sanders
1 On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 11:10 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote:
2 > On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:06:49 +0200
3 > Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 > >
7 > > Argh, I don't get it. /u/p/p/default-linux/amd64/2005.0/use.mask
8 > > contains "multilib", but with a comment stating it is forced on when
9 > > MULTILIB_ABIS is defined, and make.defaults has MULTILIB_ABIS="x86 amd64".
10 > >
11 > > Can any AMD64 users shed some light on this please?
12 > >
13 >
14 > multilib can be, or it used to be able to, turned off so that only 64-bit versions of the
15 > libs get built.
16 >
17 > Normally, it should be turned on and set in the USE string, for most folks on a x86_64
18 > platform. But, on a system without multilib, turning it on means that, as a minimum an -
19 >
20 > emerge -uDav --newuse system
21 >
22 > will need to be performed to rebuild gcc, glibc and all the base system libs so that the following
23 > get created -
24 >
25 > /lib64
26 > /lib32
27 > /usr/lib32
28 > /usr/lib64
29
30 All of those are present on my system, but I am still seeing
31 "(-multilib)" when I do e.g. "emerge -va glibc".
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