True, but -m32 wouldn't work if 32-bit compat libraries aren't installed,
etc. Overall I think the best solution here is to get EMCONFIGURE_JS on by
default, so configure tests the exact right setup, and for it to give clear
errors where it fails, so people know what to modify in configure scripts.

- Alon


On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Bruce Mitchener <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Alon Zakai <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This is a limitation of how we "fake" configure results. We invoke the
>> native compiler but with our libraries and defines, so this can fail if
>> types are different. The reason we do this is that configure can do
>> anything natively - read/write to a file, open a process, etc., stuff we
>> can't do in compiled JS.
>>
>> There is an EMCONFIGURE_JS env var you can set, to force use of JS, which
>> might help here.
>>
>> Perhaps we should default to EMCONFIGURE_JS, and force people to modify
>> configure scripts the other way - but either way, there will be manual work.
>>
>
> In this case, you could use the right flags with clang to request a 32 bit
> build.
>
> On Linux and FreeBSD, pass -m32, on OS X, pass -arch i386.
>
> Seems like you could do that in this chunk:
>
>     env['HOST_CC'] = CLANG_CC
>     env['HOST_CXX'] = CLANG_CPP
>     env['HOST_CFLAGS'] = "-W" #if set to nothing, CFLAGS is used, which we
> don't want
>     env['HOST_CXXFLAGS'] = "-W" #if set to nothing, CXXFLAGS is used,
> which we don't want
>     env['PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR'] = path_from_root('system', 'local', 'lib',
> 'pkgconfig') + os.path.pathsep + path_from_root('system', 'lib',
> 'pkgconfig')
>     env['PKG_CONFIG_PATH'] = os.environ.get ('EM_PKG_CONFIG_PATH') or ''
>     env['EMSCRIPTEN'] = path_from_root()
>
>  - Bruce
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