On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
Note the newchr only needs to be run one time since the clean chroot
will stay on your system until you delete it.
