[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] 32 bit OS .. 64 bit OS

[Brad Douglas]

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 15:57 +0200, Maciej Sieczka wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> > Maciej Sieczka wrote on 08/03/2007 12:21 PM:
> 
> >> Ravi, are you referring to the fact that there is no generic 32bit
> >> binary GRASS package on GRASS website, but only 64bit?
> 
> > If so, I don't know how to generate 32bit binaries on a (pure) 64bit
> > machine as the GRASS server is. A way out would be that a community
> > member auto-generates 32bit Linux binaries which I then auto-fetch
> > every week.
> 
> Hi
> 
> After some reading I must say I'm to ignorant in this regard and won't
> help much. If anybody is willing to take on this, I found 2 usefull
> resources: "building 32bit app on 64bit system" [1] and "How to build
> 32-bit Wine on a 64-bit (x86-64) system" [2]. The latter is about Wine,
> but it gives detailed instructions for several main distributions,
> which could help.
> 
> [1]http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=570955
> [2]http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit

export CFLAGS="-m32..."

However, I fail to see the usefulness of 32bit GRASS on 64bit systems.


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