From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q1drC-0006qR-8s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:05:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BB2A1C001; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D001C001 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0LIE001JMPI9TA80@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:03:45 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.63,218,1299452400"; d="scan'208";a="101507627" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:03:45 +0100 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id p2LC3jIj010917 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:03:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3F9A32 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:03:46 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:03:46 +0100 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <1300699147.3059.1@numa-i> In-reply-to: <1300699147.3059.1@numa-i> X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.9 Message-id: <1300709026.3059.3@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 92f2c3a9e493ec561afe2f94b65978c5 On 03/21/2011 10:19:07 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. > I've just nuked /usr/portage/profile and restored it from a machine which hasn't been updated the last few days. Now, it looks as if this has fixed my machine. So, beware of portage-2.2.0_alpha28 ! Helmut.