Re: [Fetchmail-users] compiling fetchmail as 32 bit on a 64 bit machine

[Joe Acquisto-j. <jo...@j4...>]

>>>
> -lresolv -lssl -lcrypto
>>>> /usr/lib64... skipping incompatible
>>>
>>> Try pointing -I and -L at 32 bit versions of those,
>>> probably of kerberos too if you need that.
> 
> Why not compile it directly on the 32bit box.
> 
> Compiling a 32bit prog needs 32bit libs linked into it, not 64bit.
> gcc was looking at the 64bit libs and complained about them.
> Probably easier to download latest, or copy over old, precompiled
> 32bit libs of openssl and resolver than trying to compile them too from
> source as 32bit. They're usually in 32bit package repos of whatever OS.
> Also easier to add -static to LDFLAGS CPPFLAGS, else
> you'll probably have to copy all the compiled against 32bit libs
> over to the 32bit box into whatever hiers or
> into a dedicated private LD_LIBRARY_PATH dir.
> Maybe the OS already has a up to date 32bit fetchmail
> package binary users could manually extract and run.
> That's all userland, then there's kernel ABI...
> especially if crossing major kernel version nums.
> Uprev direction might require kernel rebuild with
> compat options, compat libs, etc. Downrev is more work.
> 
> The work involved building into old prods usually
> triggers migration and a vow to keep updated.
> 
> 

The box it is running on has shortcomings, needs packages that cannot be got.  
Everything needs refresh, bottom up.

Just trying to get a more up to day version of fetchmail on it for the time being.

May approach this another way. 



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