On Tuesday 03 May 2005 03:02 pm, James Baldassari wrote:
I'm currently running Gentoo for AMD64 on a dual Opteron system. Everything works fine, and I'm really happy with it. I have been able to run binaries compiled on 32-bit x86 systems without any problems so far. It sounds like you need to do some cross-compiling for 32-bit x86. I've never done that, so I can't say how well that would work, but if you have the "cross" and "multilib" USE flags, you should have all of the components you need to do that.
there is no 'cross' USE flag, that's not how Gentoo does cross-compiling ... cross-compiling is done simply by manipulating CHOST (and assuming you installed a cross-compiler ... use the 'crossdev' frontend i made to make your life easier) ... ymmv depending on your target of course :)
For example, Flash doesn't seem to work on AMD64 yet, and I don't think you can play WMV files, even with the 32-bit libraries.
sure it does, install the 32bit firefox-bin and the 32bit netscape-flash and run that version to use flash ... i create two mozilla profiles, one for my normal usage and one for when i want to launch a 32bit browser to view a flash page $ firefox # 64bit native version $ firefox-bin -P 32bit-profile # a 32bit profile i made -mike