On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 11:10 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:06:49 +0200 > Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Argh, I don't get it. /u/p/p/default-linux/amd64/2005.0/use.mask > > contains "multilib", but with a comment stating it is forced on when > > MULTILIB_ABIS is defined, and make.defaults has MULTILIB_ABIS="x86 amd64". > > > > Can any AMD64 users shed some light on this please? > > > > multilib can be, or it used to be able to, turned off so that only 64-bit > versions of the > libs get built. > > Normally, it should be turned on and set in the USE string, for most folks on > a x86_64 > platform. But, on a system without multilib, turning it on means that, as a > minimum an - > > emerge -uDav --newuse system > > will need to be performed to rebuild gcc, glibc and all the base system libs > so that the following > get created - > > /lib64 > /lib32 > /usr/lib32 > /usr/lib64
All of those are present on my system, but I am still seeing "(-multilib)" when I do e.g. "emerge -va glibc". -- jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
