On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, M.Canales.es wrote:
My concern is that we could to test if the 32-bits libraries are presents, but
in a pure-64 system, how could we test if the 32-bit emulation is supported
by the kernel?
That I don't know. In practical terms, you might want to stick with
looking for the 32-bit libraries (or Joe's -m32, although it will only
succeed on multilib)
For ppc, 'G5' macs (970 processors) need a 64-bit kernel anyway, so you
have to go beyond the book to build the headers, C cross-compiler and
binutils (only). Therefore, they can equally chroot while trying to
build ppc64 multilib.
I'm lost when spooking about that archs. I will need "answers for dumbs" to
know what triplets combos are allowed and what not :-?
I suspect ppc64 is not for the dumb, which is why I have so much
trouble with it :-( When mine runs 32-bit userspace, I use linux32 to
invoke gdm (or init, I think) so that userspace is convinced it's really
on just ppc - think of linux32 as another sort of uname hack, which
alters the kernel personality. Certainly, in recent 2.6 it cannot boot
with a 32-bit kernel, but that has not always been true. It's easy
enough for me to -know- I need a 64-bit kernel, but pretty hard to
codify. Something like
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep PPC970 >/dev/null && echo "chroot is supported"
Ken
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