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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 - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJVKX5KXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ0RkJDMzI0NjNBOTIwMDY5MTQ2NkMzNDBF MTM4NkZEN0VGNEI1Nzc5AAoJEOE4b9fvS1d5y5QP/izvgeo0ixQ9Ui6vCyYzajq2 F0u6EG65imPAyJsphC9EeCMRDDlvnBqhSn2vFhKf42MbG1IRaghvqEH0beBYGEd4 txKbZe3iURRUDXXpSrA0P1Zg2bqbq30N9Izz4jX8S7zQ6dUcwMiIJy11To0Kk9uI dwmIOhOtrmb+BoDg9XSlI7kycrVkt6oBhxU5TySEb9+bB5TdvzMBGXKuxIYph+tK 8uLIdjPeufJpB+Js4L/KKpfRJx2kzphl04ZESHjWQsQVPMDvWvHYKGI65xQTmoQY 5LEb95clZEwrB7NCI8LskUHZGz0vIEGl6Exz2eL8QISFTEbvEcd4aieOePU8c5lE EH73YDsN04NvIc4pWP4KGH9+7eBoemvrqUy325kiVwxWJdjF7/2EZ/64hcVhXIif 6O5gLBKpTdI/lX+JU3wHM8Y881NZ6X/nmu0p5LPU5dXCgogUjUybfTlz4hT1rcfS gl0z0BSm+5TZ3EmQeZyBK04/MMxaoHf8RSnrkVuO6mimaxJoQaS57oWNNnZkNjXC d50XpzLkj6ybghL8HvCHIuRnMBpGLdxGIr7YBdD3M43xcVcdziX6Xr5dJSLcOYlv 3MKkIK4mcNbMovInjO+2ydObOj/ZIXimdioFyUqPsF+vh6WW3XXm+5eZggzmmABK 0J1CYHbhUOM/QXUc6M6P =c4D8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
