Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

[Alan Grimes]

Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> > 1. My machine is not correctly configured to build 32 bit executables,
> > mainly because I cannot find a 32 bit version of ncurses that ld is
> > willing to acknowledge the existence of.
>
> This seems to be working for just about everyone else. So maybe
> providing some technical info for your system would be helpful?
>
> I mean, standard stuff like "emerge --info" output or the versions of
> ncurses, binutils and gcc that are installed (including useflags)?
/etc/portage # emerge --info
[[: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to validate a sane '/dev'.
bash process substitution doesn't work; this may be an indication of a
broken '/dev/fd'.
/etc/portage #

(I have not yet attempted to write new stage3 into my install yet,
waiting for someone to come along who can draw me a map back to a fully
usable system.)


/etc/portage # gcc --version
gcc (Gentoo 4.9.2 p1.3, pie-0.6.2) 4.9.2
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

/etc/portage #


/etc/portage # ld --version
GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25 p1.0) 2.25
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) a later
version.
This program has absolutely no warranty.
/etc/portage #


>
> > 2. LD cannot find ncurses, -- It simply can't, in 64 bit mode either.
> > That is the only error message it ever gives and vast amount of effort
> > spent in sessions over the last year and a half have failed to find any
> > solution. I only installed Gentoo on this machine four and a half years
> > ago so it's hard to imagine what could have gotten this royally foobar
> > in such a short period.
>
> If you kept your system updated all the time, you shouldnt have any
> problems.

Byte me.

Linux is crap, it takes all the talent I have to keep this piece of junk
running. =( I'm the user here, I am not going to take any lip from you
about how I run my system. =|  I put a great deal more work into
maintaining my system than most of the rest of you.


> > The ncurses problem has been a low-level
> > issue for a long time but, with tinfo set, 99% of packages worked.
>
> Define low-level issue. What was broken all the time that you ignored?

Busybox, valgrind, a number of other minor packages.

> > 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit enabled.
> > ALARM: ABI_x86 should be set in exactly one place:
> > /etc/portage/make.conf and nowhere else. But, nevertheless, ABI_x86 WAS
> > set which broke the profile because my system cannot compile 32 bit
> > executables. =( I tried the no-multilib profile but it didn't have a
> > number of essential useflags and was foobar.
>
> You're still not providing the slightest bit of useful information.
>
> What happens if you try to generate a 32bit executable?

Fails completely due to linking errors even though it should always be
possible to compile something without its binary dependencies (with only
the headers) because symbol resolution should take place at load time. =|

> What gcc are you using, with what settings?

By all appearances, Emerge identifies the most broken version of
everything it can find and uses that without providing any user feedback.

Here's my make.conf, some lines might be changed because I have been
struggling to find a working configuration.



/etc/portage # cat /etc/portage/make.conf
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically
# built this stage.
# Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more
# detailed example.
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=native -pipe "
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

LDFLAGS="-lncurses "

MAKEOPTS="-j 6"

# WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done lightly.
# Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before
changing.
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"

INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"

LINGUAS="en en_US"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"

# These are the USE flags that were used in addition to what is provided
by the
# profile used for building.
USE="3dnow 3dnowext amr apache2 ares audiofile autoipd avahi bittorrent
     blender-game bmp boost c++0x caps cdio cg cgi clang cpudetection
css curl
     custom-cflags custom-tune debugger declarative device-mapper dga
     discouraged dolbyinrec double-precision drm evdev expat extras fbcon
     ffcall ffmpeg fftw firmware fluidsynth fontconfig foomaticdb freeimage
     ftp g3dvl gbm gflags gfortran ggz gl glade glut gmp gnome gphoto2
     graphviz gsl gstreamer gtk3 heterogeneous high-ints hpijs hwdb icu ide
     imlib ithreads jadetex java jit joystick jpeg2k kde kdrive lame lapack
     libffi libkms libwww llvm-shared-libs lm_sensors lua lzo matroska
     mdnsresponder-compat metis midi minizip mmap mms mmxext mozilla mp3rtp
     mpeg2 multicore multilib multislot mysql nas natspec netpbm nowin
     nsplugin ode ogre ois okteta openal opencl openexr openssl opus orc pae
     parport pch pcre16 perl pgo plasma posix postproc povray
private-headers
     pulseaudio python python3 qml qthelp quicktime r600-llvm-compiler
     reiserfs script sdk seamonkey secure-delete semantic-desktop server
sftp
     sip smp soprano sql sqlite sse2 sse3 sse4 static-ppds subversion
     system-boost system-cairo system-icu system-jpeg system-libvpx
     system-sqlite t1lib theora threads threadsafe threadsonly tk
     unlock-notify upnp upnp-av userlocales utempter uuid uvm uxa v4l vcd
     video videos vnc webkit xine xmp xvfb xvmc yuv4mpeg zeroconf -bluetooth
     -bundled-libs -dso -examples -libav -odbc -samba -vlc tinfo"

CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse2_4way 3dnow 3dnowext sse sse2 sse3 sse4"

RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20 ruby21 ruby22 ruby24"

GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc efi-64"

EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=1 --quiet-build=n --verbose"

FEATURES="sandbox distlocks nostrip parallel-fetch userfetch userpriv
usersandbox splitdebug -preserve-libs"

PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--progress"

VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia radeonsi radeon"

source /var/lib/layman/make.conf

PYTHON_TARGETS="${PYTHON_TARGETS} python2_7 python3_4"
PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7"

ABI_X86="64 32"

GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/"

/etc/portage #


Hmm, I don't remember when that ldflags got set, must have been a long
time ago. =\



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