I get this warning when merging it: QA Notice: The following shared libraries lack NEEDED entries /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat-20081109/image/usr/lib32/libc.so.5 My emerge --info: Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.27-gentoo-r2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Timestamp of tree: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.8 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -msse3" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -msse3" DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache collision-protect cvs distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer multilib-strict parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org" LANG="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_ALL="es_ES.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="es es_ES en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 asf audiofile avahi bash-completion beagle berkdb bzip2 bzlib cairo caps cdb cdda cddb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cli consolekit cpdflib cpudetection cracklib cross crypt cups curl daap dbus dga divx4linux djvu dlloader dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dvi eds emboss encode epiphany erandom escreen evo evolution exif fam fame fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran ftp fuse galago gb gcj gd ggi gif gimp gimpprint git glitz glut glx gnome gnome-keyring gnome-print gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal hddtemp iconv idn imagemagick imlib inotify isdnlog ithreads jabber java java6 jpeg kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kpathsea ladspa lame latex lcms libnotify lm_sensors logrotate lzma mad madwifi midi mikmod mime mjpeg mmx mmxext mng mono moonlight motif mp3 mpeg mpi mplayer mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz nas nautilus ncurses nethack network nls nocardbus nptl nptlonly ntp nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openmp pam pango pch pcre pdf perl plotutils png posix postscript ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection remote rtc scanner sdl session slang slp sockets spell spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs sysvipc t1lib tcpd theora threads thunderbird tiff timidity totem trayicon truetype unicode usb v4l2 vcd videos vim vorbis wma wmf xattr xcb xcomposite xft xine xml xml2 xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="es es_ES en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa fbdev vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Reproducible: Always
the NEEDED check is bogus wrt libc.so.5 however, i have no idea why it's even being shipped with the emul package. punt it already.
It's being still shipped because emul-linux-x86-compat still provides 32 bits libs from sys-libs/lib-compat and sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 :-/
that's no reason to keep the crap around. the libs that lib-compat provides are irrelevant. the only 32bit C++ libs that should still be provided are libstdc++.so.[56], and neither require the old glibc libc.so.5
The problem is that sys-libs/lib-compat (and probably the one provided by app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat) seems to be still required by some apps in the tree: games-action/phobiaii/phobiaii-1.1.ebuild games-fps/rtcw/rtcw-1.41b.ebuild sys-libs/lib-compat-loki/lib-compat-loki-0.2.ebuild sys-block/hpacucli/hpacucli-8.10.2.ebuild then, I am not sure about dropping it would be a good idea :-/
This won't be fixed then We expect to drop lib-compat once we are sure no other ebuild depends on it Best regards