Bug 278774 – mozilla-firefox-bin-3.5.1 should not depend on emul-linux-x86-compat

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description ferret 2009-07-22 22:53:26 UTC]

emul-linux-x86-compat contains old 32-bit versions of gcc and glibc related libraries (namely the standard C and C++ libraries).

On amd64 this is listed in RDEPEND of mozilla-firefox-bin, however it doesn't seem to use it at all.  After removing emul-linux-x86-compat I ran the following command with the following results:

ferret@jupiter ~ $ qlist mozilla-firefox-bin | while read -r; do ldd "$REPLY" 2>/dev/null; done | grep 'not found'
	libgconf-2.so.4 => not found
	libORBit-2.so.0 => not found
	libgconf-2.so.4 => not found
	libORBit-2.so.0 => not found
	libgnomevfs-2.so.0 => not found
	libgnome-2.so.0 => not found
	libbonobo-2.so.0 => not found
	libbonobo-activation.so.4 => not found
	libgnomevfs-2.so.0 => not found
	libgconf-2.so.4 => not found
	libORBit-2.so.0 => not found
ferret@jupiter ~ $ 

The above missing libraries are a known, unrelated Crash Reporter issue.

I also looked directly at ldd /opt/firefox/firefox-bin ; and the closest relevant dependency I could see was libstdc++.so.6, but that isn't provided by emul-linux-x86-compat.

I also tried running it with ltrace both with emul-linux-x86-compat installed and not installed, and it did not touch any of its files.

So I think it is a superfluous dependency and I would like it to be removed.

Note that I do not have a no-multilib system, so I am unable to test it on that; but I don't see how mozilla-firefox-bin uses any of the libraries in this package.

ferret@jupiter ~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.30-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r1-x86_64-AMD_Turion-tm-_64_Mobile_ML-34-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:15:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p24
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.6.2-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.3-r3
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.0
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="buildsyspkg collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/"
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
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"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X aac aalib acpi alsa amd64 avi bash-completion berkdb bittorrent bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cleartype cli cracklib crypt curl directfb divx dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo fam fbcon fbsplash ffmpeg firefox flac flash ftp gdbm gif gmp gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 iconv id3 imap imlib java javascript jikes jpeg kpathsea lame libcaca libnotify libwww lua lzo mad midi mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib music ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp pcre pdf pdflib perl png ppds python quicktime readline reflection rtc samba sdl session spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb videos vim-syntax vorbis wmf x264 xcb xft xml xml2 xorg xosd xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="atiixp" 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="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt 2009-07-23 00:20:58 UTC]

-bin packages are masked on no-multilib setups as they do not support and 32bit support.

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2009-12-30 13:45:56 UTC]

emul-linux-x86-compat package is now providing 32 bits libs from:
sys-libs/lib-compat
sys-libs/libstdc++-v3

Seems that, on x86, it's not depending on these libs, then, I am not sure if that depend is ok on amd64 :-/

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2010-01-02 14:39:59 UTC]

Finally fixed in 299297

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 299297 ***