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I'm running a x86_64 Arch Linux, now I need to build packages for a i386 Arch Linux,

Is that possible? I already checked makepkg (8), it doesn't seem to support manually selection of package architecture.

I'm doing this for a few AUR packages, and I don't really want to, e.g add CLAGS

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Might be useful: stackoverflow.com/questions/4131158/… – slm♦ Jun 27 '13 at 2:36

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The devtools package provides a few helper scripts to build packages for a different architecture from PKGBUILD files.

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The makechrootpkg solved the problem. – warl0ck Jun 27 '13 at 13:40
    
unfortunately, this solution doesn't work on a traditional system, without systemd, because the makechrootpkg script depends on systemd-nspawn – Peter Jun 16 at 20:51
    
Arch Linux always uses systemd, so that shouldn't be a problem. – Wieland Jun 17 at 8:30
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This thread sounds like what you're looking for.

I'm not that familiar with ArchLinux so I don't understand the specifics but from what I gather it sounds like you can setup a 32-Bit chroot environment on your 64-Bit system, setup a 32-Bit toolchain within it, and build packages in there.

Also this link was referenced and looks to be exactly what you want.

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