Fedora 44 Looks to Drop I686 Support: No More Multi-Lib / x86 32-Bit Packages

by rcarmoon 6/25/25, 7:40 AMwith 10 comments
by egberts1on 6/25/25, 3:50 PM

Secret to smoothest usage of /usr[/local]/lib64 is to leverage Redhat's

    config.site

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:

    CONFIG_SITE="/usr/share/site/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
    export CONFIG_SITE
Source link:

https://github.com/egberts/easy-admin/issues/1

by rurbanon 6/25/25, 12:38 PM

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.

by 2OEH8eoCRo0on 6/25/25, 9:35 AM

Steam remains a roadblock since it is still 32 bit

by mystified5016on 6/25/25, 5:45 PM

I have somehow never seen the term I686 before

For anyone else, this refers to 32 bit Pentium 2/3/Pro architecture