Re: [Xen-devel] need to compile 32bit on x86_64 cpu

[Harry Butterworth <harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What's wrong with the chroot option that Keir mentioned?

On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 22:36 +0530, Anand Gupta wrote:
> On 6/22/06, Petersson, Mats <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>         I tried using
>         "setarch i386 bash"
>         "make clean dist"
>         It's still compiling, but it looks like it might work... 
>          
>         [You may need to install setarch on your machine, as some
>         machines don't have it installed as default. setarch allows
>         the machine to set a flag so that when something like uname is
>         asking "What processor is this" the answer will be "i686"
>         instead of "x86_64", and thus tools that use for example
>         "uname -m" to find the CPU type, will figure that it's a
>         32-bit processor instead of 64-bit. 
>          
>         However, you may need to have certain libraries and other
>         tools installed on the machine to build 32-bit binaries. 
>         
> 
> The libraries is going to be one major problem i guess as already the
> same libraries are installed in 64bit mode and the system won't allow
> both to be installed :( 
> 
> -- 
> regards,
> 
> Anand Gupta 
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