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. -- Rgds Peter