Multilib availability

[evand]

I'm looking to install and run software that's built for armv7hf on a Odroid C2 which uses a Cortex-A53 (ARMv8). The software devs indicate that adding the 32bit libs to mix is likely to be all that's required, albeit in the long term when there's sufficient demand they'll create specific builds for armv8/aarch64. I tried to add multilib to pacman's sources list but it seems it's not been incorporated in https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv ... /odroid-c2

Any workarounds to get the 32bit libs installed?

[WarheadsSE]

Because we have no multilib. You should be able to run said software in an arvm7h chroot.

[evand]

Thanks for the tip. I created a chroot environment for ARMv7, installed the program and its dependencies and it's up and running.

Is there any way of launching the program in the chroot jail on startup of the device?

[andiling]

http://linux.die.net/man/1/chroot

Just add your command to the end and let it run at boot.

[WarheadsSE]

Perhaps via nspawn

[evand]

Thank you. I've looked into it and reviewed the Arch guide. It looks like a great way to have the software launch on startup of the ODROID. How would I go about bootstrapping without the ability to call pacman and have it pull from the Armv7 build?

[WarheadsSE]

1) Install devtools-alarm
2) See the manuals/help for mkarchroot / pacman

[evand]

Thanks for the help, much appreciated.

[evand]

Ok, I've looked at mkarchroot and pacman help and I'm still a little lost.

If I was to call mkarchroot I'm still unsure how I'd get it to reference the armv7 repositories rather than the Armv8 repositories?

[WarheadsSE]

You supply an alternate pacman.conf