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phabulosa

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How to cross compile 32bit packages on Arch64 via distcc?

Is there a way to cross compile 32 bit packages on Arch64 via distcc?

Use 32bit chroot on Arch64, maybe?

If anyone has done such things, please tell me how.

Thank you very much!

bender02

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Re: How to cross compile 32bit packages on Arch64 via distcc?

Don't know about distcc (and I don't see a reason why it should be possible), but 32bit chroot works fine (I've even use it for that).

phabulosa

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Re: How to cross compile 32bit packages on Arch64 via distcc?

Don't know about distcc (and I don't see a reason why it should be possible), but 32bit chroot works fine (I've even use it for that).

I have a Arch64 desktop which is very fast and a Arch32 laptop which is very slow.

I want to take advantage of my fast desktop during the compilation of some AURs on the slow laptop via distcc.

Any suggestions?

AndyRTR

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Re: How to cross compile 32bit packages on Arch64 via distcc?

You can either compile on the 32bit laptop and use distcc with many jobs pushed to the faster desktop or build inside a 32bit chroot on the desktop.

phabulosa

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Re: How to cross compile 32bit packages on Arch64 via distcc?

You can either compile on the 32bit laptop and use distcc with many jobs pushed to the faster desktop or build inside a 32bit chroot on the desktop.

Can you give me some directions on how to set up the 32 bit chroot for distcc on Arch64? For example, how to automatically start a 32bit distccd on Arch64? How to enable this Arch64 to build both 32bit and 64bit code via distcc?

dhave

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Re: How to cross compile 32bit packages on Arch64 via distcc?

You can either compile on the 32bit laptop and use distcc with many jobs pushed to the faster desktop or build inside a 32bit chroot on the desktop.

Can you give me some directions on how to set up the 32 bit chroot for distcc on Arch64? For example, how to automatically start a 32bit distccd on Arch64? How to enable this Arch64 to build both 32bit and 64bit code via distcc?

Though I can't advise you, questions like yours make me glad I'm an Arch user. Just the fact that somebody would want to do this, plus the likelihood that you can do this, is very cool.

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Themaister

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Re: How to cross compile 32bit packages on Arch64 via distcc?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arc … bit_system <--- good place to start

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bender02

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Re: How to cross compile 32bit packages on Arch64 via distcc?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arc … bit_system <--- good place to start

That's exactly what I followed to make a 32bit chroot on a 64bit machine. Then just use pacman inside the chroot to install the base-devel group, and you can start compiling packages from AUR, exactly the same way as you usually do. That's what I do (I have eee laptop on which it's pain to compile, so I use my 64bit machine for compiling). Then just transfer the newly created packages to the 32bit machine and install...

I don't use distcc for that, so can't help you with this, sorry.