Re: how to set up a 32-bit toolchain on a 64-bit distro?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse dot ca>]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Stuart Hughes wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 06:45 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   probably slightly off-topic but i figure, if anyone's going to know
> > this, it's toolchain people.
> >
> >   i've downloaded a freescale coldfire toolchain from codesourcery and
> > it installs and runs just fine on the 32-bit version of fedora 10
> > preview on one of my 64-bit AMD-CPU laptops.  i really wanted to
> > install it on the 64-bit version of that OS but, when i do and try to
> > cross-compile "hello, world", the link step fails looking for
> > /lib/ld-linux.so.2.
> >
> >   not surprisingly, that linker doesn't exist on the x86_64 distro --
> > what does exist is under /lib64.  what would be the obvious solution?
> > can i just install the 32-bit version of glibc on the 64-bit version
> > of the OS?  i'm reluctant to just try it until someone can give me an
> > opinion one way or the other.  thanks.
> >
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> Try installing the 32bit compatibility libraries package.  This will
> let native 64 bit and 32 bit applications run.
>
> Regards, Stuart

  would you happen to know the actual package names or "yum" arguments
to use for this?  if not, i can ask on the fedora list.  i had assumed
the above, i just wanted someone else to confirm it.

rday
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