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

[Georg Grabler]

chrooting 32 bit did always work with arch64. I had some problems with that
one though, and by dropping i686 completely, you'll still need somebody to
build all those 32bit packages, or do it yourself

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Abdul Halim <sagikliwon at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Is there a chroot to 32bit from 64bit host in Arch? I guess it is time to
> do so.
> How am I gonna run my skype and wine application? :-)
>
> > sounds like a cool project, maintaining some tools and scripts to do
> > that on arch.  Xyne has probably already written it.
> >
> > Dieter
>