How to compile glibc 32bit on an x86_64 machine

Question

I\'m trying to compile glibc (as a secondary, not a system replacement) 2.6 on an x86_64, and trying to get it to produce 32-bit objects. When I give it a standard configure

Answer 1

The following works for me:

../../src/glibc-2.6/configure --prefix=$HOME/glibc32-2.6 \
 CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32" i686-linux-gnu