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[Glyn Kennington <glyn AT ox.compsoc.net>]

[sorry if this is a duplicate, I replied through an unsubscribed address 
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Treeve Jelbert wrote:
> The only major problems I encountered were with openssl and LLVM, both 
> of which tried to build 64-bit code in the 32-bit chroot. Everything 
> else, including gcc-4.6.3 and glibc-2.17 built successfully in the 
> chroot. I decided that I did not need llvm or mesalib either. I am not 
> sure whether to remove openssl.

I encountered the same problem with openssl, and eventually found that
uname was the problem.  I installed a wrapper script to pipe the output
of the original through sed (s:\<x86_64\>:i686:g).

Not very clean, and I have to recreate it every time I update coreutils,
but it does the job.

> I finally have a stripped down system, which is 1.8GB against 6GB for
> my normal system. 215 against  652 spells.

I only ever access my 32-bit partition via chroot, so it doesn't need to be
bootable, which helps to keep it small.

> I hope that someone finds this of interest.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one doing something like this.