On 2015-03-07, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> I'm not sure what changed, but as of a few weeks ago I can no longer
>> install acroread on my AMD64 system (something to do with x86
>> emulation librarys being blocked by something in the Xorg server).
>
> Hello Grant,
>
> I do not remember doing anything special, but acroread works for 
> me on amd64 with, these:

It used to work for me as well, but now it's blocked:

alpha grante # emerge -av acroread

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N     ] dev-util/bsdiff-4.3-r3  6 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20140508  
USE="(development) -opengl" ABI_X86="(-32)" 0 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-opengl-20140508  
USE="development" ABI_X86="(-32)" 0 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20140508-r3  
USE="development" ABI_X86="(-32)" 0 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-text/acroread-9.5.5-r2  USE="nsplugin -html -ldap" 
LINGUAS="-ja -ko -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 KiB
[blocks B      ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs[-abi_x86_32(-)] 
("app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs[-abi_x86_32(-)]" is blocking 
dev-libs/libevdev-1.3)

Total: 5 packages (5 new), Size of downloads: 6 KiB
Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)

 * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
 * installed at the same time on the same system.
  
  (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20140508:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled 
for merge) pulled in by
   ~app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20140508 required by 
(app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20140508-r3:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled 
for merge)
   app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs[-abi_x86_32(-)] required by 
(app-text/acroread-9.5.5-r2:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
   >=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20100611 required by 
(app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-opengl-20140508:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for 
merge)
                
  (dev-libs/libevdev-1.3:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
    dev-libs/libevdev required by 
(x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.9.1:0/0::gentoo, installed)

I've probably got the ABI_X86 stuff set incorrectly, but I've never
been able to find understandable documentation on how that's supposed
to be configured on an AMD64 system where you need to support a few
32-bit apps.

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