On Tuesday 21 April 2015 12:38:40 Heiko Baums wrote:
> Am 21.04.2015 um 03:14 schrieb Joseph:
> > I don't think grub is asking for it.
>
> I know it does, because grub-0.97 is 32 bit only software, and the
> package sys-boot/grub-0.97-r14 compiles grub from the sources with
> dynamic linking. So it needs 32 bit dependencies (packages with
> USE="abi_x86_32") incl. sys-devel/gcc.
Not here, it doesn't.
# grep abi /etc/portage/*
/etc/portage/package.use:sys-libs/gpm abi_x86_32
/etc/portage/package.use:sys-libs/ncurses abi_x86_32
# grep grub /etc/portage/*
/etc/portage/package.mask:>=sys-boot/grub-2.00
# eix -Ic grub
[I] sys-boot/grub (0.97-r14{tbz2}@20/04/15): GNU GRUB boot loader
# eselect profile list
...>8
[6] default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde *
...>8
> If you don't want to have any abi_x86_32 dependencies being installed on
> your system you need to replace sys-boot/grub-0.97-r14 [with]
> sys-boot/grub-static-0.97-r12, because this package contains the grub
> binary with static linking.
I haven't used grub-static here for ... oh, several years at least.
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Rgds
Peter
