Basile STARYNKEVITCH writes: > 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.
make sure that 'personality=linux32' is set for this chroot in /etc/schroot/schroot.conf (or as suggested prefix the schroot command with 'linux32' every time you enter the chroot). Matthias