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Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Friday 03 Apr 2015 17:48:38 covici@××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > On 2015-04-03, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > > > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 02:12:40PM -0300, Francisco Ares wrote |
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> > > > |
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> > > >> Hi, |
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> > > >> |
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> > > >> How does one know previously which packages will require 32 bit ABI ? |
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> > > >> |
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> > > >> I have two systems (among others) to consider: one is very simple, |
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> > > >> built using as fewer packages as possible, it is the development |
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> > > >> system for an embedded equipment, and it is 64 bit ABI only - no |
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> > > >> multilib; the other is a general purpose workstation, with lots of |
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> > > >> packages, and someday, by some forgotten reason, I needed to install |
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> > > >> emul-linux-* . |
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> > > >> |
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> > > > Can you attach your /var/lib/portage/world file to a post here? I |
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> > > > |
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> > > > assume you have nothing embarressing in it. Almost all applications |
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> > > > that used to require 32-bit emulation now run natively on 64-bit |
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> > > > no-multilib. I recently upgraded a 7+ year old machine from 32-bit |
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> > > > Gentoo to 64-bit-only Gentoo (no-multilib) and I don't have any apps |
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> > > > with problems as 64-bit only. |
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> > > |
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> > > The only two 32-bit apps I've run into on my various XFCE machines are |
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> > > grub-legacy (which requires a 32-bit ncurses lib), and acroread (which |
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> > > requires 100+ 32-bit libraries). |
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> > |
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> > hmmm, I have 7 emul-linux86 packages, but portage did not offer to |
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> > replace them when I checked today for a world update -- I didn't want to |
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> > remove them manually, I thought it might do more harm than good. I am |
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> > not sure whether I need any 32-bit libraries, although I do have |
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> > multilib enabled, but I wonder about those emul-linux-x86 packages. Any |
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> > way for me to tell what is going on here such as dependencies on 32-bit |
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> > libraries? |
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> Try this perhaps: |
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> for EMUL in $(eix -I --only-names emul-linux); do equery depends $EMUL; done |
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> unmerge them and the run 'emerge @preserved-rebuild'. Portage will then tell |
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> you which 32bit packages you will need to add in your package.use file with |
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> the 32 bit ABI flag. |
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hmmm, one of the things dependent on emul-linux thingies is the C |
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compiler! both 4.8.4 and 4.9, so if I unmerge the emul things, will I |
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still have a C compiler? Otherwise nvidia-drivers seems to also need |
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emul-linux and they depend on each other. |
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-- |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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covici@××××××××××.com |