Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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Hi Alan,

> 1. My machine is not correctly configured to build 32 bit executables,
> mainly because I cannot find a 32 bit version of ncurses that ld is
> willing to acknowledge the existence of.

This seems to be working for just about everyone else. So maybe providing some technical info for your system would be helpful?

I mean, standard stuff like "emerge --info" output or the versions of ncurses, binutils and gcc that are installed (including useflags)?

> 2. LD cannot find ncurses, -- It simply can't, in 64 bit mode either.
> That is the only error message it ever gives and vast amount of effort
> spent in sessions over the last year and a half have failed to find any
> solution. I only installed Gentoo on this machine four and a half years
> ago so it's hard to imagine what could have gotten this royally foobar
> in such a short period.

If you kept your system updated all the time, you shouldnt have any problems. 

> The ncurses problem has been a low-level
> issue for a long time but, with tinfo set, 99% of packages worked.

Define low-level issue. What was broken all the time that you ignored?

> 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit enabled.
> ALARM: ABI_x86 should be set in exactly one place:
> /etc/portage/make.conf and nowhere else. But, nevertheless, ABI_x86 WAS
> set which broke the profile because my system cannot compile 32 bit
> executables. =( I tried the no-multilib profile but it didn't have a
> number of essential useflags and was foobar.

You're still not providing the slightest bit of useful information. 

What happens if you try to generate a 32bit executable? 
What gcc are you using, with what settings?

Cheers, 
Andreas


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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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