On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Brad Fanella <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 05:55:42PM -0500, Nathan O wrote: >> What would the best way to compile i686 packages on a 64bit system to test >> the i686 version? >> With also maybe a possible few 32-bit only software that I might have to >> run. > > Simple. Use a 32-bit chroot. > > Or send it to me to test. ;-) >
Check out my wrapper for the devtools, called makizushi. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=104483 to build a 64 bit package just do the following: (you might want to change the packager variable, although you don't have to) newchr stable64 mkchr stable64 first command creates a clean chroot in /var/mychroots second command makes the package in the clean chroot
