On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Basile STARYNKEVITCH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All > > As (I imagine) many developers I have a 64 bits machine - running Debian > (Sid) Linux AMD64. > > I want to test my MELT branch on x86 (32 bits). So I set up (using > debootstrap) a x86 32 bits Debian/Lenny chroot-ed system (in /debian32) > which has most of the *-dev packages installed. > > In this chroot-ed environment I am able to compile several software without > issues. For example, I just compiled there the PPL. > > The point is that even after schroot the uname system call (& the uname > command) still return x86_64 as the machine. I suppose there is no easy > trick to circumvent this.
Usually there is a command called 'linux32' which fixes this. > > I thought that > ../configure --build=x86-linux --target=x86-linux --host=x86-linux > (with other MELT specific options) should be enough, but apparently not; > make fails with and it is i686-pc-linux-gnu, x86-linux is not a valid target triplet. Richard.
