Dan Shimshoni wrote:
I want to add that "make ARCH=i686" (on the 64 bit machine) gave me errors
(and also trying to passing various gcc 32 bit arch flags ).
What errors you got will be very helpful in getting to a solution - my
guess would be link problems and/or wrong Makefile configuration
It seems to me that both these tools are more complicated then needed.
Does anyone know a better way for achieving this ? for example, building
binutils on the x86_64 machine (maybe with a specific 32 bit flag, and
maybe also building glibc with a flag specifying the target is intel
x86 machine is a must ?), and then building gcc against this libraries
?
If you're looking for the simplest solution, run a 32-bit environment -
either in a virtual machine (virtual box, kvm, qemu or even vmware) or a
chroot environment (google "debootstrap"). The virtual machine solution
has the property that you'll also be able to test said kernel module and
not just compile it.
Kernel modules will very often only work against the exact kernel
version for which they were compiled. You're in for redoing the work if
you upgrade the kernel on the 32-bit machine.
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