Re: [gentoo-user] Problems updating glibc-2.26-r7

[wabe]

Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:

[...]
> >> You're trying to make a multilib glibc, and your kernel does not
> >> support one of the resulting ABIs (most likely
> >> CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION needs to be turned on in the kernel
> >> configuration to be able to run x86 binaries on an amd64 install).
> >>
> >> (That said, this is a rather stupid bug in the glibc build system
> >> and needs to be fixed eventually.)
> >
> > Thank you very much for your answer.
> >
> > You are right. Compiling the kernel with CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
> > solved the problem. I switched from hardened kernel to gentoo
> > standard kernel some time ago and just forget to compile it with
> > that option.
> >
> > IIRC I build a multilib system many years ago because of grub. But
> > maybe I don't need multilib anymore. How can I find out if I have
> > x86 binaries installed?
>
> This should give you a good start:
>
> scanelf -M
> 32 /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin /opt

Thank you very much.

So I find out that it is still grub that requires multilib on my system.

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Regards
wabe