Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 17 August 2010 09:24:42 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
> 2010/8/16 Stéphane Guedon <stephane@22decembre.eu>:
> > I have read several things about this, but never really solved !
> > 
> > Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile
> > ?
> > 
> > All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits,
> > whereas flash player exist currently in 32bits. So, I need to have
> > 32bits browser ! Can I emerge ?
> 
> There's a multilib overlay that will allow you to build 32 bits
> software on a 64 bits OS. But it's completely unsupported, don't
> expect it to work flawlessly. It's been long since the last time I
> tried it so I don't know what the current status of things is.


Or he could just ignore the warnings about 32/64 bit issues n the ebuild and 
use nspluginwrapper.

That's what I use on latest Firefox, Konqueror, Chrome, Rekons and Arora. It 
works everywhere but flash does use excessive CPU, but that is a 
characteristic of flash, not of the wrapper....


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