sys-boot/grub:0 is the only package on many of my systems that depend on app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs and actually /sbin/grub only needs it for libncurses.so.5 # ldd /sbin/grub linux-gate.so.1 (0xf7782000) libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib32/libncurses.so.5 (0xf76f7000) libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7542000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7761000) You will find attached a patch that intent to use recent multilib effort to get ride of app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 377246 [details, diff] grub-0.97-r13.ebuild patch
Created attachment 377252 [details, diff] Updated patch Thanks for the patch. I made a few minor changes, most notably: 1. added [-abi_x86_32(-)] to emul-linux deps. This helps portage understand that once ncurses[abi_x86_32] is installed, emul-linux can be uninstalled. 2. re-enabled the static build for amd64 if ncurses[abi_x86_32,static-libs] is installed. This should make it possible to drop grub-static in the future. Please test my changes, esp. wrt the static build.
(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #2) > Created attachment 377252 [details, diff] [details, diff] > Updated patch > > Thanks for the patch. I made a few minor changes, most notably: > > 1. added [-abi_x86_32(-)] to emul-linux deps. This helps portage understand > that once ncurses[abi_x86_32] is installed, emul-linux can be uninstalled. This is good to known. Thank you > 2. re-enabled the static build for amd64 if ncurses[abi_x86_32,static-libs] > is installed. This should make it possible to drop grub-static in the future. This give : >>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r13/work/grub-0.97 ... /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r13/temp/environment: line 4096: has_package: command not found * ERROR: sys-boot/grub-0.97-r13::as29 failed (configure phase): * You must use the grub-static package if you want a static Grub on amd64! > Please test my changes, esp. wrt the static build. Replacing has_package with has_version give the correct result : # file /sbin/grub /sbin/grub: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, for GNU/Linux 2.6.16, stripped
Created attachment 379818 [details, diff] ebuild patch v3 Even when I repeat the s/has_package/has_version/ fix, the previous version would needlessly die when USE="static -ncurses amd_x86_32". But my new ebuild patch fixes the dependencies so that that various combinations work: amd64 or x86 ncurses or -ncurses static or -static abi_x86_32 or -abi_x86_32 The combination USE="static ncurses -abi_x86_32" (using emul-linux) should now fail the dependency checks, instead of failing a build-time (src_configure) check. I tested many of the combinations, except I didn't actually test any -abi_x86_32 (emul-linux) or x86-fbsd cases, and I only "emerge -pv" tested the x86 cases.
ping ; this is becoming a blocker for unmasking gx86-multilib on amd64 stable.
Committed in grub-0.97-r14. I used mgorny's patch as the basis but adjusted the amd64/static portions so that USE="-ncurses" doesn't kill the emerge.
