On 08/16/2010 09:13 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
I have read several things about this, but never really solved !
Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ?
All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas
flash player exist currently in 32bits. So, I need to have 32bits browser ! Can
I emerge ?
Thanks !
Welcome to hell. No, that's possible, as others pointed out. There was
an initiative to bring true multilib to Gentoo a year or so back (maybe
more) but it seems it died and no one's working on it.
For your browser this is probably not so problematic. But imagine
someone running the latest graphics stack (libdrm, mesa, etc.) on his
64bit machine, but its totally useless because proprietary Linux games
are 32bit and thus won't run.
It's 2010 and Gentoo still hasn't solved that :-/
