Re: missing libc with -m32

[Pierre-Matthieu anglade <pierre dot matthieu dot anglade at gmail dot com>]

I've been told that on ubuntu64, the 32 bit libs lives in /usr/lib32
while the 64 bits one lives in /usr/lib. There is no standard but on
other distro you have respectively /usr/lib and /usr/lib/64. can't
your problem come from that to some extent?

On 11/29/05, Kai Ruottu <karuottu@mbnet.fi> wrote:
> Tom or Julie Laub wrote:
>
> > We are trying to build wine on an Ubuntu 64-bit system. The configure
> > script fails saying that it cannot generate the executables. On
>  > inspecting the config.log file we find that when trying to compile an
>  > c++ or c program with the -m32 flag (ex. gcc -m32 hello.c) the
>  > compiler cannot find an appropriate libc.a or libc.so file to link
>  > with. It skips multiple "inappropriate" libc.a and libc.so files
>  > and then finally give up saying it cannot find -lc.
>
> But are the 32-bit libraries there or not?
>
> > Can you give us some guidance on what to do about this problem?
>
> If all the 32-bit libraries (glibc, termcap, ncurses, X11, Gnome,...)
> are there, just find out why they are not found and used !  If they
> are not there, what extra packages should be installed, maybe the 32-
> bit stuff is totally 'optional'...
>
>
>


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Pierre-Matthieu Anglade