Bugzilla Bug 178262

galib currently has no keyword for the amd64 arch.  

On my amd64 box, I added
sci-libs/galib ~* *
to package.keywords and was able to successfully emerge the ebuild.

I have run all of the examples included with the library, and have tested it
with my own applications.  It all works well.  There seems to be no problems.

Would like to have the appropriate keyword added for amd64.  Thanks!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

please add your emerge --info :>

As an addendum, galib has been updated to 2.4.7.  The galib maintainers may
want to add it.  I haven't tried it yet.

emerge --info is here.

 # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r2,
2.6.20-gentoo-r8 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor
3600+
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 11 May 2007 21:30:01 +0000
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt
cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo fam firefox fortran gdbm
gif gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv imap isdnlog jpeg kerberos libg++ mad midi
mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pcre pdf perl png pppd
python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby sdl session spell
spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts unicode vorbis xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp
atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801
hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem
ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug
file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate
route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"
KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001
mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv
vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Well perhaps all is not so well with this package on AMD64 after all.

The problem I am having now is that I cannot compile the library with the -fPIC
compiler option (the ebuild complains about it, but doesn't use CFLAGS anyway)

I need the -fPIC (I think) so that I can include this lib in a .so I want to
build to an application.  I've had no issues with this in x86.  

I can link the galib into executables without any problem, it's just shared
libs that fail.

Please ignore my previous comment just filed.  I was changing CFLAGS, but galib
uses CXXFLAGS.  Hence the problem I was having.  I can rebuild galib with -fPIC
and have no problem linking and using .so's.

(In reply to comment #2)
> As an addendum, galib has been updated to 2.4.7.  The galib maintainers may
> want to add it.  I haven't tried it yet.
Please file a separate bug for that.

~amd64 added