When we originally set up gcc-multilib and lib32-glibc, we did two things: 1) Not use /lib32, but only /usr/lib32. /lib is used for libraries that are needed during system boot, so there is no point in having /lib32 - it was clean with /usr/lib32. Now, we have /lib32 and binaries in there. 2) The linker was set to link against /lib/ld-linux.so.2. This allows executing binaries compiled with 'gcc -m32' under any other distribution. '/lib/ld-linux.so.2' is also a defacto standard for the linker path. Now, the linker is set to /lib32/ld-linux.so.2, making the binaries incompatible. Why was this changed? Even more important, why was this changed silently without being mentioned here? This makes me quite mad, as the original setup was nice, clean and very useful.