32 bit ports on an AMD64 system

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 09:49:47AM -0400, Jim wrote:
> > Also note that it is possible to have an i386 port-building jail on an
> > amd64 system.
> 
> 
> So, make/build/run a normal jail using the 64 bit os "world", add -m32
> to the make.conf CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, build stuff in the jail, and
> copy it to main (non-jailed) system, and run ldconfig on the library
> directories? I'd probably also change PREFIX/LOCALBASE to prevent the
> files from the ports from colling with the base system files when I
> copy them over.

The following post gives some more explanation. Essentially you're doing a
cross-build: http://en.jnlin.org/2008/06/07/12/

Roland
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