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Hello Duncan: |
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Pleae read my comments. |
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On Sat Mar 13,2010 10:20 pm, Duncan wrote: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann posted on Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:29:06 +0100 as |
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> excerpted: |
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> > On Samstag 13 M??rz 2010, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: |
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> >> Hello all, |
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> >> |
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> >> I have been looking into installing wine and a cross dev tool chain. I |
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> >> didn't get much luck, since I have amd64 and I use no-multilib. I found |
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> >> this http://bugs.gentoo.org/269439 and I am wondering if any one can |
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> >> provide an advice. Is it be possible to run wine on amd64 with |
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> >> no-multilib ? |
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> > |
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> > you won't be able to run any 32bit windows app. Which makes wine pretty |
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> > useless. |
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> FWIW, I have no-multilib, but with the 32-bit compatibility turned on in |
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> the kernel, I'm able to do the 32-bit chroot thing as in the gentoo/amd64 |
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> documentation. |
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> In my case, I'm doing a full 32-bit chroot image, which then gets |
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> transferred to my AA1 netbook. (The big machine has far more memory and |
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> power to do the compiles, so it makes more sense to do that and not even |
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> have the gentoo tree on the netbook, just transfer over the prebuilt, |
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> preconfigured image, and rsync it again after every update. I've never |
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> booted the 32-bit image on the big machine, tho, and indeed, couldn't, as |
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> the kernel drivers, etc, are all built-in and configured for the netbook.) |
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Are you saying that you have another 32bit gentoo image, and you mount it |
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somewhere and chroot to it? If so, what does the memory has to do with this ? |
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Can you please elaborate on this ? The space is not a concern to me, but |
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I'd rather not mix 32 and 64 libs. |
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> For just running 32-bit stuff on the same machine, tho, you'd not need the |
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> full system image, as you'd be able to skip stuff like syslog and the |
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> kernel, as they'd be 64-bit hosted. |
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> That'd give you the 32-bit stuff including wine in its own little chroot, |
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> fully built from source as any Gentooer should appreciate, without |
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> dirtying up your 64-bit-clean no-mulilib main install as the 32-bit stuff |
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> would be in its own chroot, and without the compromise of the prebuilt 32- |
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> bit libraries the typical multilib installation uses. It's a bit more |
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> work to keep updated than a multilib install, but because the main install |
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> is 64-bit clean no-multilib, you don't have the broken 32-bit toolchain |
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> issues that seem to strike many multilib users after awhile. (...that I |
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> got tired of after a few times, and that I was VERY glad to be rid of, |
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> when I dumped multilib myself.) |
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> -- |
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> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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