I'm logging into a remote 64-bit Linux box via 'ssh'. This remote system doesn't have the ia32-libs package installed, and I don't have root access. So I unpacked the 32-bit libraries myself from the various packages, to a convient directory. I then successfully ran a 32-bit program with this:

$ /path/to/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path /path/to/32-bit-libs ./32-bit-exe

However, the command is actually invoked by the ant build system - at which point even LD_LIBRARY_PATH seems to be ignored. And I get a file not found error.

I would like to preserve the 32-bit ld path. I'm running the 64-bit apache-ant.

The usual solution to that type of problem is mv your 32-bit-exe to a different name and create a shell script in the place and name that the 32-bit-exe used to have. That shell script would be something like

#!/bin/sh
/path/to/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path /path/to/32-bit-libs 32-bit-exe-new-name $*

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Excellent idea. It worked. I had to use the absolute pathnames (without symlinks).