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 1Q0G2O-000285-BZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:27:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6F701C004; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:24:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 579C11C004 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:24:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwj40 with SMTP id 40so3970798wwj.10 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:24:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=oY/IHWmbgzFJaAu0Wru5uGPXZb0DWYjWH02+LRycp0c=; b=xh4OSNCEjt875+JyDmsHghxtZ/C4FhH/Sc80S/bpdWIuHqZw/HxhTlUPVyNZbY773j HZdxxXEy/r6yBBthrV1euqXEEKk+rZpA8QQjG5DTiqYxLzO+XR3eMraS4BWNQ6t3aDnp +CGiaGWOr5GRbSIBdBO9xwCVr5hT6qLto5mOE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Rl42STDjO89VREnPI0Fxt+vvkrVA/ep/vt5v9RwGQxOenkkS09iaAY8fwLW3pH0Rku E35Dfyh1qXR/UCzHVsYAjQ/taRFaCwEZt7rvZJ+TQh8VK+ygdMjePBtiLBmedbRfYLsY 91XlaH8qktgDl2SOg+erxCCzd9MZyrRnBqm3w= 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 Received: by 10.216.158.21 with SMTP id p21mr1043213wek.99.1300379068432; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:24:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.175.20 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:24:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20110315154021.670c13ae@digimed.co.uk> <20110316233644.GA26551@waltdnes.org> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:24:28 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Live 11.0 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: James Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6ea98b60c843c6a53d251bcf327d60ec On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:05 AM, James wrote: > Walter Dnes waltdnes.org> writes: > > >> =C2=A0 WINE, which runs some Windows apps, will not build on a 64-bit sy= stem >> without multilib support. =C2=A0I found that out "the hard way" after >> installing pure 64-bit on my machine. =C2=A0Rather than wipe+reinstall, = I >> ended up installing a 32-bit Gentoo guest under qemu-kvm, and installed >> WINE on that. > > > Walter, > You have confused me. First you indicate that multilib is > needed for WINE. Then you indicate that you had to use the > 32 bit mixed mode (no multilib).... under =C2=A0qemu-kvm, and > and then install WINE under the 32 bit qemu. > > So if you were installing a system, just to run wine, would it > be multilib or hybrid (64 and 32 bit) ? > > > James James, 1) Wine is 32-bit 2) Walter had a 64-bit only system 3) Walter had 2 choices: a) Wipe the system and start over making it a multi-lib system b) Create a 32-bit chroot He chose b). It's not possible to 'install a system to ONLY run Wine', but if you want to run Windows apps you have 3 choices: 1) Install 32-bit Gentoo on your 64-bit hardware. Not very interesting to m= e. 2) Install 64-bit Gentoo with multi-lib support. This is what I do, although I don't run Wine anymore as I use Vbox & VMware. 3) Install 64-bit Gentoo without multi-lib support and run which in a 32-bit chroot. Double the Gentoo maintenance because you are now required to keep both the 32-bit & 64-bit installs up-to-date. Hope this help.