Multilib

Exherbo supports multilib natively, but it's not enabled by default yet.

First we enable the multilib profile by changing the profiles variable in arbor.conf.

File: /etc/paludis/repositories/arbor.conf

...
profiles = ${location}/profiles/amd64/multilib
...

Remove the CHOST entry from bashrc and either set C{,XX}FLAGS which apply to all C targets, or define individual ones.

File: /etc/paludis/bashrc

CFLAGS="-march=native -pipe -O2"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

#MULTIBUILD_C_32_USER_CFLAGS="-march=native -pipe -O2"
#MULTIBUILD_C_32_USER_CXXFLAGS="${MULTIBUILD_C_32_USER_CFLAGS}"
#MULTIBUILD_C_64_USER_CFLAGS="-march=native -pipe -O2"
#MULTIBUILD_C_64_USER_CXXFLAGS="${MULTIBUILD_C_64_USER_CFLAGS}"

# cave resolve skeleton-filesystem-layout -x1

Temporarily enable bootstrap and reinstall glibc, it will also pull in bootstrap-gcc.

File: /etc/paludis/options.conf

sys-libs/glibc bootstrap

# cave resolve glibc -x1

Temporarily disable openmp and reinstall gcc. If you intent to rebuild gcc afterwards you can also temporarily disable java, fortran, etc. to speed things up.

File: /etc/paludis/options.conf

sys-devel/gcc -fortran -java -openmp

# cave resolve gcc -x1

Switch to the new gcc, if not already active.

# eclectic gcc list

# eclectic gcc set -1

Remove the bootstrap OPTION from glibc in /etc/paludis/options.conf and reinstall it, also purging the now uneeded bootstrap-gcc.

# cave resolve glibc --purge '*/*' -x1

If you disabled some gcc options before in /etc/paludis/options.conf, you can now re-enable them and reinstall gcc.

# cave resolve gcc -x1

If you want to install for example Wine you may bave to temporarily disable some OPTIONS to manually resolve blockers.

File: /etc/paludis/options.conf

sys-apps/util-linux -systemd -udev
sys-apps/dbus -systemd

Be sure to re-enable and reinstall the affected packages afterwards.