[arch-general] 32-bit glibc package?

[David Rosenstrauch]

Adam Vogt wrote:
> * 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

Interesting discussion.  (I read through the whole thread.)

Unfortunately, as Roman noted, this issue doesn't only come down to 
closed source apps.  Virtualbox OSE apparently can't build without 
32-bit support too.

http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-July/006944.html

DR