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

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