[alsa-devel] Alsa-lib 32-bit on 64-bit machine

[Alan Horstmann]

On Wednesday 22 October 2014 08:03, you wrote:
> At Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:12:21 +0100,
>
> Alan Horstmann wrote:
> > I've tried to find info or examples of this on the web, but to no avail.
> >
> > What is the recommended way to build Alsa-lib on a 64-bit machine to
> > create the additional alternative 32-bit libraries for compatibility with
> > 32-bit applications?
> >
> > The original distro (in this case a Suse Enterprise) has them, but
> > standard './configure make install' only builds the 64-bit variants.  I
> > only succeeded by explicitly adding CFLAGS, and wondered if it should
> > work using configure options, or another way?  I'm also not sure exactly
> > which flags should be set with that method (m32, march=i686 others?). 
> > Does anyone know how it is done in the Suse builds?
>
> I don't know of any other than passing CFLAGS and LDFLAGS.

OK, thanks; what is the purpose/use of '--target=' or '--build=' configure 
options?

Regards

Alan