Dan Upton wrote:
Thanks Dan - the VM is not really an option for me - my Suse XEN stuff does
not actually work - I have never managed to figure out why not...
The other idea - mounting the ebox is a good one - I will try it and report back
- At the worst, I can manage to destroy my current installation... . *grin*
- Hendrik
>If you don't have a 32 bit system to build it on, you could always set
>up a VMWare machine... but that might be more effort than necessary.
>You can probably just run configure on your normal machine and then
>edit the makefile to add -m32 to the compiler or linker flags--that
>will force gcc to generate 32-bit code. You'd have to copy the files
>over and get the paths right yourself though. Alternately, if you can
>mount the eBox somewhere in Linux, you should be able to do configure
>--prefix=/path/to/eBox/mount and then make install will work for you
>too.
>
>(I haven't tried this before, but that's how I'd go about it.)
>up a VMWare machine... but that might be more effort than necessary.
>You can probably just run configure on your normal machine and then
>edit the makefile to add -m32 to the compiler or linker flags--that
>will force gcc to generate 32-bit code. You'd have to copy the files
>over and get the paths right yourself though. Alternately, if you can
>mount the eBox somewhere in Linux, you should be able to do configure
>--prefix=/path/to/eBox/mount and then make install will work for you
>too.
>
>(I haven't tried this before, but that's how I'd go about it.)
not actually work - I have never managed to figure out why not...
The other idea - mounting the ebox is a good one - I will try it and report back
- At the worst, I can manage to destroy my current installation... . *grin*
- Hendrik