On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 17:43 -0500, Jeff wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Alan M. Evans <ame1 at extratech.com> wrote: > > Ugh. > > > > One of our internal servers crashed so bad I just went out and bought a > > new machine to replace it. > > > > The old server was Pentium-4 based and running CentOS-5. When I > > installed CentOS on the new machine, I used the 64-bit version, partly > > because that habit is almost automatic nowadays, and partly because the > > new machine has 6GB of RAM, so 32-bit seemed not very appropriate. > > > > Anyway, I've managed to configure every one of the old server's many > > functions to match on the new server but one: I need the 32-bit version > > of compat-gcc-34. (Or at least I need to be able to compile 32-bit > > binaries with the already available version.) I can't seem to do this; > > am I just missing something? > > > > In retrospect, installing the 64-bit OS may have been foolish. But it's > > too late now. I've spent several days installing/loading/configuring > > this system to the point it's at now. It would be a pity to have to > > start over completely just to enable this one (very critical) function. > > > You do not provide a lot of detail on what the actual problem is That would be because I don't really know what's relevant. Have you ever felt so ignorant about something that you can't even formulate an intelligent question? That's me, right now. > , but > have you tried the -m32 flag with gcc. that will tell it to create > 32-bit code. You will also need to pass that option to the linker and > be sure any dependent libraries have the 32 bit versions installed. I've tried the -m32 flag, along with "CC=gcc34" to actually cause it to use the compat compiler instead of the new one. The build process produces a lot of warnings that may or may not have been there before, then bails out with: make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.6/include/stdarg.h', needed by `hostcom.o'. Stop. On the old server, which I have limited access to, that file is owned by the compat-gcc-34 package. And the 64-bit version of this package is installed on the new server, so the directory is x86_64-redhat-linux instead of i386-redhat-linux. -Alan