On Monday, 12 March 2018 15:29:28 GMT Nils Freydank wrote: > Hi, > > Am Montag, 12. März 2018, 13:54:18 CET schrieb siefke_lis...@web.de: > > Hello, > > > > I have a short question. Is it true that Brother Printer Drivers need > > a multilib System? > > unfortunately yes. Maybe specific drivers will work with no-multilib, but > most ones will compile and install and then silently fail due to some > missing 32bit userspace libs they need etc. > > > https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/brother-overlay > > > > I found this overlay and it seem so that gcc without multilib not work. > > > > Is there a way to build the printer system as 32 bit, or does the whole > > system have to be built accordingly? > > You can try to setup a chroot or container (e.g. with LXC/LXD or systemd- > nspawn) for it, but I these would contain a small 32bit system, too. > > > Thank you & Nice Day > > Silvio > > I hope I could help a bit, > Nils
I can confirm this. When I tried to install net-print/brother-hl3140cw-bin from the brother overlay on a amd64 no-multilib system it failed. I have not tried to install the same driver on a 32bit system, but could give it a go one of these days if it helps. -- Regards, Mick
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