[arch-general] [Fwd: [arch-announce] Dropping i686 support]

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:29:58 +0200 (CEST)
"Thomas Bohn" <thomas at bohnomat.de> wrote:

> On Wed, April 1, 2009 11:00, M Rawash wrote:
> 
> > a more obvious choice would be to stick with archlinux+ABS, remember
> > we're just dropping BINARY package support, arch's build tools will
> > remain the same, think of it as a less sucky gentoo.
> 
> To compile mplayer on my Atom N270 takes forever, I can't imagine to
> compile X or Firefox on that machine.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
distcc/crosscompiling etc. you can compile on your 64bit box for 32bit.

sounds like a cool project, maintaining some tools and scripts to do
that on arch.  Xyne has probably already written it. 

Dieter