Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: > On Monday, 12 March 2018 15:29:28 GMT Nils Freydank wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Am Montag, 12. März 2018, 13:54:18 CET schrieb siefke_lis...@web.de: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I have a short question. Is it true that Brother Printer Drivers need >> > a multilib System? >> >> unfortunately yes. Maybe specific drivers will work with no-multilib, but >> most ones will compile and install and then silently fail due to some >> missing 32bit userspace libs they need etc. >> >> > https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/brother-overlay >> > >> > I found this overlay and it seem so that gcc without multilib not work. >> > >> > Is there a way to build the printer system as 32 bit, or does the whole >> > system have to be built accordingly? >> >> You can try to setup a chroot or container (e.g. with LXC/LXD or systemd- >> nspawn) for it, but I these would contain a small 32bit system, too. >> >> > Thank you & Nice Day >> > Silvio >> >> I hope I could help a bit, >> Nils > > I can confirm this. When I tried to install net-print/brother-hl3140cw-bin > from the brother overlay on a amd64 no-multilib system it failed. > > I have not tried to install the same driver on a 32bit system, but could give > it a go one of these days if it helps.
I guess if you only need multilib for this one package it would be possible to compile it and its dependencies with the abi_x86_32 USE flag instead of setting the ABI_X86 variable for the whole system? - Lasse
