how should I configure my buuild for i386-*linux*

[Christian Groessler]

On 5/9/22 14:01, Nick Alcock via Binutils wrote:
> On 7 May 2022, Andreas Schwab told this:
>
>> On Mai 07 2022, Nick Alcock via Binutils wrote:
>>
>>> Thankfully the answer is pretty simple. Try configuring like this:
>>>
>>> configure CC="gcc -m32" ...
>> That would would conflict with the value of the --host option.
> Well, you'd use --host if you want to trigger a cross-compilation: but
> most uses in this case are not cross-compilations at all but different
> compiler configurations on a multiarch system capable of executing
> x86-32 and x86-64 programs. Just flipping the CC flags is enough in this
> case. Obviously before this can work you need a 32-bit libc etc etc
> but almost everyone who's even thinking of doing this will either
> already have one or will have one trivially available to install.


If you're on a Debian system (maybe others), run "linux32" and configure 
in this subshell.

It lets the programs think they are running on a 32bit machine.

regards,
chris