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Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> writes: |
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> On Monday, 12 March 2018 15:29:28 GMT Nils Freydank wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> Am Montag, 12. März 2018, 13:54:18 CET schrieb siefke_listen@×××.de: |
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>> > Hello, |
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>> > |
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>> > I have a short question. Is it true that Brother Printer Drivers need |
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>> > a multilib System? |
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>> unfortunately yes. Maybe specific drivers will work with no-multilib, but |
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>> most ones will compile and install and then silently fail due to some |
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>> missing 32bit userspace libs they need etc. |
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>> > https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/brother-overlay |
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>> > I found this overlay and it seem so that gcc without multilib not work. |
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>> > Is there a way to build the printer system as 32 bit, or does the whole |
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>> > system have to be built accordingly? |
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>> You can try to setup a chroot or container (e.g. with LXC/LXD or systemd- |
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>> nspawn) for it, but I these would contain a small 32bit system, too. |
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>> > Thank you & Nice Day |
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>> > Silvio |
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>> I hope I could help a bit, |
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>> Nils |
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> I can confirm this. When I tried to install net-print/brother-hl3140cw-bin |
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> from the brother overlay on a amd64 no-multilib system it failed. |
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> I have not tried to install the same driver on a 32bit system, but could give |
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> it a go one of these days if it helps. |
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I guess if you only need multilib for this one package it would be |
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possible to compile it and its dependencies with the abi_x86_32 USE flag |
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instead of setting the ABI_X86 variable for the whole system? |
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- Lasse |
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