[CentOS] 32-bit compat-gcc on 64-bit CentOS?

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:35 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?

Perhaps you can use "mock" to build chroot cages for such 32-bit operations?