[aur-general] multilib

[Nathan O]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
Thanks for the suggestion, my main thing is to test a package using i686 and
maybe occasional running apps that only run in 32bit mode.