Kushal Koolwal wrote:
Thank you for your response!
You are welcome.
I (Basile) suggested:
You could set up a chroot-ed 32 bits Debian on your 64 bit machine and
compile Debian inside.
Apologize for being ignorant but will I be to do "make xconfig" in the chroot environment or will I have to rely on the "make menuconfig"?
It depends of your schroot-ed environment, and basically of the amount
of disk space you spend on it (you don't need a separate partition, it
could be a subtree).
The debootstrap package & command is helpful to install it. Don't forget
to read its man page before running it. Then you'll need to bind mount
essential filesystems like /proc & /tmp and to install several important
package in your schroot-ed 32 bits system.
Then you should be able to run any X11 clients in 32 bits mode.
I have a separate partition for my /Lenny32 (but again, I could have
done without)
/dev/sdb1 /Lenny32 ext3 defaults 0 2
and my (real 64 bits system) /etc/fstab includes:
/proc /Lenny32/proc none bind 0 0
/sys /Lenny32/sys none bind 0 0
/tmp /Lenny32/tmp none bind 0 0
/home /Lenny32/home none bind 0 0
so my 32 bits schroot-ed system share /proc /sys /tmp /home with the
original 64 bits system.
Regards.
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