On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:29:20AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 28/06/12 10:17, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Say I want to have the build-essential for i386 installed on amd64. > > I could install build-essential:i386, replacing gcc/g++:amd64 with > > gcc/g++:i386. Wouldn't that give me everything needed to cross-compile > > for i386? > > For evolutions of the same CPU family (i386 vs amd64, powerpc vs > powerpc64) this sort of works, but after you've installed gcc:i386, you > can't compile 64-bit code any more (until you reinstall gcc:amd64). [...]
Sure you can (-m64). (But you'll need to have the proper headers installed.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120628182159.gy2...@decadent.org.uk