Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I run a 32-bit CentOS chroot on a 64-bit Gentoo host?

[Alan McKinnon]

On 07/02/2017 16:01, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 10:32:16PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote
>
>> It depends on how good the Pale build system is.  What you would be
>> doing is similar to cross-compiling, and you need the build system be
>> ready for that kind of thing.
>
>   [...deletia...]
>
>> Unfortunately I'm not intimate with the Mozilla/Pale build system so I
>> can't give you yea or nay, but maybe you can search for information
>> whether it can be (really) cross-compiled.  If yes, then your scenario
>> should work too.
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Cross-compiling_Mozilla
> says it can be cross-compiled.  Actually, what I'm trying to do is to
> *NOT* make it look like a cross compile.  That's why I want to rsync "/"
> (all of /dev/sda1) from the VM to a directory on the host.  This would
> give an entire 32-bit CentOS install, including toolchain, system libs,
> etc, without splattering 32-bit libs all over my host system.  It would
> all be contained in the chroot directory.  And, oh yeah, I run the
> "default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib" profile.
>


Why not just do it and see what happens?

You won't break anything on the host, the VM stays as it was and if the
chroot breaks - well it was a copy that you can recreate with ease


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