Re: [gentoo-user] Re: multilib - do I need it?

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

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

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