On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Nathan O <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Rémy Oudompheng > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Nathan O <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I installed the x86_64 version of Arch, and I was looking at the wiki on >> > running 32-bit apps in a 64-bit environment which seems what the >> multilib >> > project/repo does. Though If I try and do pacman -S gcc-multilib >> > gcc-libs-multilib binutils-multilib libtool-multilib lib32-glibc. Pacman >> > gives me that binutils and binutils-multilib conflict. Do I let >> multilib's >> > version replace it? Mainly I want to build i686/x86_64 packages and make >> > sure they work fine on both architectures as well, maybe with running a >> few >> > 32-bit only applications if I come across them. >> >> If you want to build i686 packages, multilib is not the solution, >> because it aims at creating 32-bit binaries which work correctly on a >> 64-bit system (that is, using different library paths to avoid >> confusion and so on). multilib is suited to create packages containing >> 32-bit binaries for the x86_64 packages (like the lib32-* packages). >> Yes, you need the gcc-multilib packages and friends to make it work. >> >> If you want to know whether your packages will work on i686, I think >> you'd better set up a chroot. >> >> -- >> Rémy. >> > Thanks for the suggestion, my main thing is to test a package using i686 > and maybe occasional running apps that only run in 32bit mode. > I tried the Arch32-light package Xyne made, but I may have done something wrong, so I uninstalled it. Then I found out that, don't know how, my root password wasn't correct, had to readd gnome-session to > .xinitrc and resetup pidgin(including pidgin plugin tha twas installed) and Thunderbird. It is like I just installed all those apps and had to set them up it is really weird. I am afraid of tempting that again :) So I thought maybe use mkarchroot -r /aur/root and setup the pacman.conf to use i686 and such. What do you think, will this method work good?
