On Tuesday 17 August 2010 09:24:42 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > 2010/8/16 Stéphane Guedon <steph...@22decembre.eu>: > > I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! > > > > Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile > > ? > > > > All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, > > whereas flash player exist currently in 32bits. So, I need to have > > 32bits browser ! Can I emerge ? > > There's a multilib overlay that will allow you to build 32 bits > software on a 64 bits OS. But it's completely unsupported, don't > expect it to work flawlessly. It's been long since the last time I > tried it so I don't know what the current status of things is.
Or he could just ignore the warnings about 32/64 bit issues n the ebuild and use nspluginwrapper. That's what I use on latest Firefox, Konqueror, Chrome, Rekons and Arora. It works everywhere but flash does use excessive CPU, but that is a characteristic of flash, not of the wrapper.... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
