[gentoo-user] Re: What is the correct version of ncurses on ~amd64 now?

[walt <w41ter@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 00:13:25 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 31/08/2015 23:13, walt wrote:

> > Right now emerge tries to install ncurses-6.0-r1 but the 32-bit
> > part of the build fails because emerge never ran make in the
> > work/cross/progs directory, and so the 32-bit tools didn't get
> > compiled.
> > 
> > I hacked around this by running make in that directory manually,
> > which allowed the ebuild install and ebuild package phases to
> > succeed.

 
> This machine was entirely unaffected by all the recent ncurses issues:
> 
> [I] sys-libs/ncurses
>      Available versions:
>      (0)    5.9-r3 (~)5.9-r4 5.9-r5(0/5) (~)6.0-r1(0/6)
>      (5)    5.9-r99(5/5) (~)5.9-r101(5/5) (~)6.0(5/6)
>        {ada +cxx debug doc gpm minimal profile static-libs test
> threads tinfo trace unicode ABI_MIPS="n32 n64 o32" ABI_PPC="32 64"
> ABI_S390="32 64" ABI_X86="32 64 x32"}
>      Installed versions:  6.0-r1(12:52:29 30/08/2015)(cxx gpm threads
> unicode -ada -debug -doc -minimal -profile -static-libs -test -tinfo
> -trace ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" ABI_PPC="-32 -64" ABI_S390="-32 -64"
> ABI_X86="32 64 -x32")
>      Homepage:            https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/
> http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/
>      Description:         console display library
> 
> So 6.0-r1 works completely relaible on at least one Gentoo machine in
> this world :-)

<huge sigh of relief>  I installed my ugly-hack binary package of
6.0-r1 and it seemed to install okay.  The first thing I tried was to
emerge 6.0-r1 the normal way and this time it succeeded :)

Apparently my known-broken install of 6.0 was preventing proper cross
building of the 32-bit files, maybe because the 32-bit part of 6.0 was
what was actually broken.

By way of reckless experiment I will now reboot this machine for the
first time since I rsynced 12 long, nail-biting hours ago...