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From: Mike Gilbert <floppymaster@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:23:37
Message-Id: AANLkTinOXO77NckGgfWCRpa+TUTzJzWhNj1_N4N358ey@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help by Helmut Jarausch
1 On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Helmut Jarausch
2 <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
3 > On 03/21/2011 10:19:07 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
4 >> Hi,
5 >>
6 >> probably, portage-2.2.0_alpha28 has broken my system.
7 >>
8 >> I have reinstalled a binary version of portage-2.2.0_alpha27, but ...
9 >>
10 >> For many packages, portage installs libraries into /usr instead of
11 >> /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib32
12 >>
13 >> Probably, the function  get_libdir
14 >> (defined in /usr/portage/eclass/multilib.eclass)
15 >> returns an empty string.
16 >>
17 >
18 > I've just nuked /usr/portage/profile and restored it from a
19 > machine which hasn't been updated the last few days.
20 >
21 > Now, it looks as if this has fixed my machine.
22 >
23 > So, beware of portage-2.2.0_alpha28 !
24 >
25 > Helmut.
26 >
27 >
28
29 vapier made some changes to the multilib profile stuff around 20 hours
30 ago. Maybe related?