Alan M. Evans wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 13:27 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Alan M. Evans wrote: >> > 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: >> >> > >> >> > 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? >> <snip> >> > 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. >> >> Got it: you need to install the 386 *sources*; you can do that without >> hurting anything, and then the things you need will be where you expect >> them to be. > > Excuse my ignorance: What *sources* are you talking about? gcc headers, and maybe kernel headers and sources (depending on what you're compiling). You've apparently only got the x86_64 sources. mark