Development machine setup for both i386 and x86_64 work

Fri Dec 22 11:03:16 UTC 2006

On Friday, 22 December 2006 at 12:00, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:21:47AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Works up to a point, which is uname.  uname -m still reports x86_64 in
> the chroot, and some stupid applications use that at compile time to
> decide what they are compiling on.  Mozilla and friends and Openoffice
> are the ones I remember of, but there was others.

Use setarch.

$ uname -m
x86_64
$ setarch i686 uname -m
i686

Regards,
R.

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