Making 32-bit packages in Arch64

Hi Arch community,
I have successfully installed a 32-bit chroot in my Arch64 system.
When I download 32-bit PKGBUILDs from AUR, and run makepkg, it warns me that making packages as root can seriously damage my system.
Is there a good, safe way to build 32-bit packages on a 64-bit Arch system?
Thanks

Also, if you've set up the chroot according to the wiki you can just do "su [username]" inside the chroot to become a regular user inside the chroot.

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error: The mirror 'http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch' contains the $arch variable, but no Architecture is defined.
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What is your favorite way of running 32 bit apps in Arch64?

I'm curious as to what methods Arch64 users use to run their 32 bit applications and what is your opinion on them.
I myself relies mostly on lib32 packages to run a few applications that I need (mostly flash & wine), which works quite nicely expect it makes my system feel a bit 'messier'. chroot looks like a nice option but I've not tried it out yet (it looks complicated to setup to be honest).

Agent69 wrote:
azleifel wrote:I use a chroot to run Epson's 32bit-only binary driver for my 3170 Photo scanner plus XSane and VueScan - something of a waste of disk space but needs must etc. - and lib32 packages for everything else that's 32bit, including nspluginwrapper-flash, CrossOver Linux and Google Earth.
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Hello everyone, I recently installed arch 64bit which was not yet fully tweaked to suit my needs.
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Last edited by kaola_linux (2008-12-09 15:24:36)

kaola_linux wrote:
Hello everyone, I recently installed arch 64bit which was not yet fully tweaked to suit my needs.
My 32bit version has some nice apps and I would like to know how to make use of them or even reuse them so that I won't download things anymore because I have a slow internet connection...:)
Arch x86_64 / XFCE4
Thanks in advance
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omgwtf i'm having the same problem
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extra esta actualizado
community esta actualizado
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verificando conflictos... Hecho.
A instalar: libgphoto2-2.4.0-3 unzip-5.52-3
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warning: fallo al descargar algunos archivos desde extra
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[root@freeking danthux]#
Last edited by danthux (2007-11-18 22:30:55)

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Edited by: sgaraga on Jun 8, 2012 4:39 PM

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yesterday i installed 64bit arch. I need to build 32bit and 64bit packages for my repo. I don't know how to build 32bit packages on my machine. I read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arc … _Arch64.3F but I do something wrong. I installed gcc-multilib and tried to build mc-new (linux32 yaourt -S mc-new). I got 64bit package. Although 'linux32 uname -a' says I have i686 machine.
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