[gentoo-amd64] Re: About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted.

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Thanasis posted on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:54:53 +0200 as excerpted:

> on 12/09/2010 06:13 AM Duncan wrote the following:
>> Meanwhile, what about that 32-bit chroot option I mentioned?  Actually,
>> there's a whole properly documented Gentoo guide for that, and it's
>> sort of special case, so I'll skip the details on it, but I'll describe
>> enough about it so you have some idea why you might want to run one and
>> how it works.
> Could you point to that gentoo guide about that 32-bit chroot on a
> no-multilib host please?

It's linked from the gentoo/amd64 project page, which is probably worth 
bookmarking (or remembering, easy enough once you know it's there) on its 
own:

http://amd64.gentoo.org

But here's a direct 32-bit chroot HOWTO link:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/chroot.xml

There's a number of other useful links on the project page, as well, 
including the gentoo/amd64 FAQ:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml

And I won't link them directly here, but for those running into -fPIC 
errors (as used to be common as *.so libs need it on amd64), there's a 
developer's howto on fixing those, and also a listing of the contents of 
each of the emul-linux-x86-* packages, for multilib folks that need a 32-
bit library but don't know for sure which emul* package it's in.

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