Development machine setup for both i386 and x86_64 work

[Hans de Goede]

Daniel Yek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How Fedora developers set up dev. machines to do both 32-bit and 64-bit 
> development on a single AMD64 machine?
> 
> Does it complicate 32-bit dev. work if the development machine is set up 
> with x86_64 Fedora Core OS?
> 
> I'm not asking what is possible, but how most developers deal with both 
> 32-bit and 64-bit development environment; if different development is 
> done on different dev. machines, fine, I will try to do that, rather 
> than trying out something that may not work that well.
> 
> Feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> 

Building 32bit binaries under an x86_64 install is possible but not 
easy, the easiest is to just install FC twice, one i386 version and one 
x86_64 and then chroot to the i386 root under a booted x86_64 instance.

Regards,

Hans