[arch-general] 32-bit glibc package?

Adam Vogt vogt.adam at gmail.com
Wed Aug 20 21:07:30 EDT 2008


* On Thursday, August 21 2008, Johannes Held wrote:

> RedShift schrieb:
>> Use a 32 bit chroot for 32 bit stuff. Arch doesn't (and hopefully will 
>> never ever) support multilib.
> That are my hopes, too.

A 32 bit chroot is an option, but you can get multilib functionalities from 
the various bin32- or lib32- prefixed packages in community and 
unsupported.

Those packages work for some people, but they aren't as robust as a chroot 
for reasons discussed here:
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-July/006907.html



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