On Thursday 16 March 2006 14:32, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
# eix -s emul -S libstdc++
* app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat
Available versions: 1.0 1.0-r1
Installed: none
Homepage:http://www.gentoo.org/
Description: emul-linux-x86 version of lib-compat, with the
addition of a 32bit libgcc_s and the libstdc++ versions provided by gcc
3.3 and 3.4 for non-multilib systems.
The description leads me to believe that this is for non-multilib
systems. But I want multilib. Am I missing anything here?
The description must be out of date with current practice; from my system
(a multilib system):
# equery b libstdc++.so.5
[ Searching for file(s) libstdc++.so.5 in *... ]
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat-1.0-r1
(/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 - libstdc++.so.5.0.5)
games-fps/doom3-1.3.1302-r1 (/opt/doom3/libstdc++.so.5)
As you can see from your own mail emul-linux-x86-compat does not install any
libs into /usr/lib32. Therefore I still think that the description may be
correct and that package may be unaware of multilib being enabled.
Nonetheless it does solve the problem and that's good enough for me. :)
On Thursday 16 March 2006 14:30, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
From http://www.gentoo.ro/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml#multilib :
What is multilib and how can I use it?
Every AMD64 processor is able to run 32-bit code as well as 64-bit code.
However, when you have a 32-bit application, you are unable to mix it with
64-bit libraries or vice versa. You can, however, natively run 32-bit
applications if all shared libraries it needs are available as 32-bit
objects. You can choose whether you want multilib support or not by
selecting the according profile. The default is a multilib-enabled
profile.
While this does explain that multilib is in fact enabled it tells me nothing
about how it is supposed to work. Just above it [1] there is a section about
the emul-linux-x86 packages which apparently explains that
emul-linux-x86-compat should have been a dependency of overnet. But it does
not state anything about multilib being required for those emul-linux-x86
packages to work. And if multilib isn't required for it then I am uncertain
about what good it actually does.
[1] http://www.gentoo.ro/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml#emul32
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