Re: State of multilib development update

[Hans de Goede <j w r degoede hhs nl>]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Rex Dieter <rdieter    > writes:
>> Since kde-config is a 64bit binary, I'm a little surprised it to worked at
>> all via 'setarch i386'.
> 
> It's the same as for all the other binaries Hans de Goede tried with setarch 
> and found not multilib-ready. ;-) setarch i386 won't break 64-bit binaries, but 
> it won't make them magically find the 32-bit multilibs either unless they're 
> specifically coded for it. Sadly, this doesn't seem to be the case for the 
> current versions of several central development tools in Fedora, and kde-config 
> appears to be one of the offenders.
> 
> By the way, for the record, I tested this in a qemu-system-x86_64 running on my 
> 32-bit Pentium 4. ;-)
> 

As a wrokaround you could grab the kde-config from the i386 package
manually and drop it in a special dir (for example rpmbuild-i386) and
then add this dir to the fron of your PATH when you want to build i386
binaries.

Regards,

Hans