GNU GCC -m32 Problem?

[Kai Ruottu]

Joseph North wrote:
> Dear Jon:
>
>
>    Thanks a lot, ~ "gcc -m32 . . " worked!
>    However, then, I got,
>
> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible ../../libastro/libastro.a when
> searching for -lastro
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lastro
>   
A search via Google for 'libastro.a' told this library being a part of 
the "XEphem" you mentioned,
so the library you have maybe was made as 64-bit...  The 'file', 
'objdump -p' etc commands would
tell what this is...

I don't know anything about "Xephem", so if producing this library was 
one part of the Xephem build
process, then that '-m32' for some reason was not transferred to its 
compile and then you should check
why the library was made as a 64-bit one...

Maybe a :

   CC="gcc -m32" ; export CC

would be required in the environment in order to get a 32-bit library....