Hi,

I am ready to give up on Firefox and OpenOffice. I have an AMD Pure64 system, 
with X 7.1 and Kde 3.5.2 but no way of opening .doc's other than dchroot, 
which works, but I feel that is a serious work-around. Does anyone have the 
time to write a bit on how to get firefox and openoffice to complile, please.

-pete

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 22:46, Mark Gesing wrote:
> Both open-office and firefox can be built from source... I have built
> the latest version of firefox, it wasen't trivial but it is possible,
> you just have to do a bit of digging on the firefox and
> <http://openoffice.org> openoffice.org websites to find the source
> tarballs.
>
>
> On 7/11/06, Rob Landley < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
> wrote:
>
> On Monday 10 July 2006 12:31 pm, Jim Gifford wrote:
> > Peter Fosseus wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a pure-64 AMD system and would like to run some 32bit apps,
>
> like
>
> > > OpenOffice, Skype and Firefox.
> > >
> > > Is it an easy task to add 32bit binary support or do I have to do
>
> the
>
> > > whole thing over again?
> > >
> > > -pete
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> > Peter,
> >     This is a tricky situation. Those particular applications expect
> > 32bit in /lib, so it won't work. But normally you could build the
>
> 32bit
>
> > stuff in a pure 64 environment in lib32. But you will need to build a
> > glibc into that directory also.
>
> It sounds like the _easy_ way to do this involves --bind mounts with the
> new
> per-process flag thingy.  So you can make your 32 bit app see /lib as 32
> bit
> libraries by running it under a wrapper script...
>
> Rob
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