[aur-general] multilib

[Rémy Oudompheng]

Nathan O <ndowens.aur at gmail.com> wrote:
> I installed the x86_64 version of Arch, and I was looking at the wiki on
> running 32-bit apps in a 64-bit environment which seems what the multilib
> project/repo does. Though If I try and do pacman -S gcc-multilib
> gcc-libs-multilib binutils-multilib libtool-multilib lib32-glibc. Pacman
> gives me that binutils and binutils-multilib conflict. Do I let multilib's
> version replace it? Mainly I want to build i686/x86_64 packages and make
> sure they work fine on both architectures as well, maybe with running a few
> 32-bit only applications if I come across them.

If you want to build i686 packages, multilib is not the solution,
because it aims at creating 32-bit binaries which work correctly on a
64-bit system (that is, using different library paths to avoid
confusion and so on). multilib is suited to create packages containing
32-bit binaries for the x86_64 packages (like the lib32-* packages).
Yes, you need the gcc-multilib packages and friends to make it work.

If you want to know whether your packages will work on i686, I think
you'd better set up a chroot.

-- 
Rémy.