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authorThomas Sachau <tommy@gentoo.org>2009-11-26 19:59:30 +0100
committerThomas Sachau <tommy@gentoo.org>2009-11-26 19:59:30 +0100
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Update docs and install instructions
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-rw-r--r--doc/KNOWN_PROBLEMS1
-rw-r--r--doc/portage-multilib-instructions13
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/KNOWN_PROBLEMS b/doc/KNOWN_PROBLEMS
index 269357c8e..0d186ef08 100644
--- a/doc/KNOWN_PROBLEMS
+++ b/doc/KNOWN_PROBLEMS
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
--perl modules, which install a lib do install a 32bit one into lib64
-mysql does only build 32bit with lib32 useflag
-kde-3.* packages fail to build, if their dependencies dont have .la files
-packages in NO_AUTO_FLAG var in profiles/base/make.defaults (including the above) dont build with lib32 useflag or dont build the right way
diff --git a/doc/portage-multilib-instructions b/doc/portage-multilib-instructions
index 0e2dd95ce..c8ddbff71 100644
--- a/doc/portage-multilib-instructions
+++ b/doc/portage-multilib-instructions
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ First, install the modified portage version:
1.
emerge -av1 portage
+remember that multilib-portage is following the 2.2* branch of portage,
+so it only has testing keywords and is hardmasked by package.mask
+
2.
check the target of /etc/make.profile
rm /etc/make.profile
@@ -38,11 +41,11 @@ eclass-overrides = gentoo multilib
4.
-then recompile world:
+then either recompile world:
emerge -e world
-(you can also use /bin/add_lib32 to add the useflag to the database,
-but this branch does also remove all .la files, so you might have to
-run revdep-rebuild or lafilefixer every time you built a package with
-multilib-portage)
+or use /path/to/multilib-overlay/bin/add_lib32 to add the useflag
+to the database. In this case, you might have to run
+/usr/bin/lafilefixer once since multilib-portage does remove most of
+.la files during install stage