I left macOS for Fedora when they removed the 32bit libs. Had to run lots of simulations on 32bit for embedded arm32, which I didn't wanted to run under qemu. (Tried debian first, but this was a clusterfuck. worse than windows)
Well, let's see what I can do now. linux is not as locked down as macOS, and providing my own multilib gcc and libs should be trivial.
Steam remains a roadblock since it is still 32 bit
I have somehow never seen the term I686 before
For anyone else, this refers to 32 bit Pentium 2/3/Pro architecture
Secret to smoothest usage of /usr[/local]/lib64 is to leverage Redhat's
Intensive details:config.site is the usual way this works on most distros. They do provide suggestions for a workaround: Basically backport whatever Fedora's config.site does.
FWIW, the distro I'm currently using where this works does this by exporting CONFIG_SITE in /etc/profile.d/site.sh:
Source link:https://github.com/egberts/easy-admin/issues/1