Arch - Building TDE i686 on x86_64 hardware

All, A note to all who may try building TDE on arch. You can build/package both x86_64 and i686 packages on your x86_64 box -- simply. To build i686 packages on x86_64, create a 2nd archroot using a custom makepkg.conf and pacman.conf. To create the custom conf files, the only changes necessary are change '$auto' or auto, and x86_64 and x86-64 to 'i686' as follows: echo " Creating i686 pacman.conf" cp /etc/pacman.conf "$tmp" sed -i 's/Architecture = auto/Architecture = i686/' "$tmp/pacman.conf" echo " Creating new i686 archroot in '$CHROOT'" cp /etc/makepkg.conf "$tmp" sed -i 's/x86.64/i686/g' "$tmp/makepkg.conf" echo " Creating new i686 archroot in '$CHROOT'" sudo mkarchroot \ -C "$tmp/pacman.conf" \ -M "$tmp/makepkg.conf" \ $CHROOT/root base base-devel sudo gdb Build your first package by switching to the directory with the PKGBUILD for the first dependency and build/clean with: sudo makechrootpkg -c -r $CHROOT Then create a [local] repository to hold all packages with 0777 permissions and update your $CHROOT/root/etc/pacman.conf with the [local] repo definition sudo mkdir -p $CHROOT/root/repo || echo -e " WARNING: unable to create \$CHROOT/root/repo\n You must manually setup local repository.\n" echo " Setting permissions for '$CHROOT/root/repo'" [[ -d $CHROOT/root/repo ]] && sudo chmod 0777 $CHROOT/root/repo echo " Adding local repository to root/pacman.conf" echo -e "\n[local]\nSigLevel = Never\nServer = file:///repo\n" > /tmp/repotmp.txt sudo bash -c "cat /tmp/repotmp.txt >> $CHROOT/root/etc/pacman.conf" rm /tmp/repotmp.txt The copy the first package to $CHROOT/root/etc/pacman.conf and create the [local] repository index with: sudo repo-add $CHROOT/root/repo/local.db.tar.gz $CHROOT/root/repo/*.xz Then simply build all remaining dependencies and TDE in the order specified, install each complete package to the rw-layer of the chroot when built, and copy each completed package to $CHROOT/root/repo updating the local repository index as shown above after building/installing each package Build all remaining packages with: sudo makechrootpkg -r $CHROOT -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.