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.
Windows can't kill 32 bit support because even today a significant amount of software for the platform still depends on it, and that won't change any time soon.
NetBSD won't kill it, because support for tons of architectures and platforms is pretty much the reason why it exists. It supports platforms far more exotic and obsolete than 32 bit x86.
config.site
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
For anyone else, this refers to 32 bit Pentium 2/3/Pro architecture
2OEH8eoCRo0•7mo ago
_mlbt•7mo ago
This seems like a reasonable work around.
2OEH8eoCRo0•7mo ago
m-p-3•7mo ago
Losing the ability to run these easily is a significant loss for game preservation.