Re: [gentoo-user] Re: broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 03/21/2011 11:13:36 AM, walt wrote:
> On 03/21/2011 02:19 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > probably, portage-2.2.0_alpha28 has broken my system.
> >
> > I have reinstalled a binary version of portage-2.2.0_alpha27, but
> ...
> >
> > For many packages, portage installs libraries into /usr instead of
> > /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib32
> >
> > Probably, the function  get_libdir
> > (defined in /usr/portage/eclass/multilib.eclass)
> > returns an empty string.
>
> Seems that some important definitions are stored in
> /usr/portage/profiles/features/multilib/make.defaults and for some
> reason they are not being honored.
>
> That file should be sourced during every emerge, depending on your
> selected portage profile.  What "does eselect profile list" say?
> Is the selected profile the correct one?
>
> Maybe using the -d flag with emerge will give you a hint where things
> are going wrong.

Thanks, Walt.

/usr/portage/profiles/features/multilib/make.defaults  looks OK

The selected profile is default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop
which is OK, as well.

I should have mentioned that after installing portage-2.2.0_alpha28
the search path included /usr/portage/bin  which doesn't exist.
I have no idea where this came from.

The debugging run revealed that the 'multilib' USE flag got lost.

I've just emerged a package both on my machine and a very similar 
machine but which hasn't been updated the last few days.

Diffing the two log files showed that the multilib USE flag isn't in 
effect on my machine (only).

I've compared /etc/make.conf on both machines and there isn't any 
difference. So, it looks like a broken profile here.
What to do about that?

Thanks,
Helmut.