Building 32 bit Mozart for 64 bit Linux
Raphael Collet
raph at info.ucl.ac.be
Wed May 10 08:56:34 CEST 2006
Kevin Glynn wrote:
> To follow up these instructions. Debian includes a script called
> linux32 which creates an environment in which 'uname' will report that
> it is running on an i686 processor. I presume other distributions
> have something similar (e.g. similar functionality is provided by
> 'setarch').
>
> With this script it is not necessary to modify Mozart sources at all,
> just run configure as:
>
> # linux32 ../mozart/configure --prefix= ... etc ....
> # make bootstrap
> # make install
>
> and you will have a 32 bit mozart runnable in your 32 bit chroot.
Thanks a lot, Kevin, for this precious information! I suggest that the
upcoming release comes with a special note "for 64 bits architectures"
on the download web page.
I'm thinking to a FAQ entry: "I accidentally bought a 64 bit machine at
the weekend. Can I run Mozart on it?" ;-)
Cheers,
raph
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