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 The description must be out of date with current practice; from my system 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 -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
