Safe to replace gcc with gcc-multilib?

xworld · 2014-01-16 20:41:05

It seems to me that every single useful package requires that I replace gcc-libs with gcc-libs-multilibs, binutils with binutils-multilib, and gcc with gcc-multilib, and it's frustrating. I'm trying to install pipelight in order to be able to do online schooling in Arch instead of having to switch to windows all the time, but I'm leery about replacing all these packages due to countless problems I've had with gcc-libs in the past. Is it safe to replace all these packages? Can't name any right now but there's been quite a few extremely useful packages that I won't install because it requires me to replace all these packages.

EDIT: I'm sorry, correction, this doesn't happen with pipelight specifically. It happens when I try to install a dependency; wine-silverlight. Yaourt also tells me that it's an unsupported and potentially dangerous package, although I didn't see anything signifying that in the AUR. I'm starting to believe yaourt says this about every package.

Last edited by xworld (2014-01-16 20:42:45)

karol · 2014-01-16 20:51:37

All AUR packages are unsupported, may be potentially dangerous and you should inspect the PKGBUILDs before using them to build and install packages.
If you're using a 64-bit system and have to use multilib, you do install lib32-* or *-multilib packages, nothing wrong with that. Why do you think it's unsafe?

xworld wrote:

I'm leery about replacing all these packages due to countless problems I've had with gcc-libs in the past.

Any examples?

xworld · 2014-01-17 07:10:09

I guess I really had no particular reason for it, it just made me nervous replacing all those important packages. I went ahead and did it though, and as it turns out, after building for at least a full hour, it just failed. Failed to build. There's doesn't seem to be a config.log to refer to like so many links recommend. It looks like I replaced those packages needlessly.

karol · 2014-01-17 07:45:22

Did you build it with makepkg or yaourt? If the latter, try again with makepkg.
If it still doesn't work, post in the comments on https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wine-silverlight/ , maybe some other wine-silverlight user can help you.

xworld · 2014-01-17 20:44:49

I've tried both actually. Both have the same outcome. I'll be sure to post in the comments thanks.

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Safe to replace gcc with gcc-multilib?

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Re: Safe to replace gcc with gcc-multilib?

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