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+#
+# Sample multilib configuration which the user can either add in local.conf
+# or specific in an configuration file like this, then require it.
+#
+# This configuration specifies an x86 64 bit machine as the main machine
+# type and then adds a multilib in the "lib32" directory where those
+# libraries are compiled with the "x86" tune.
+#
+
+MACHINE = "qemux86-64"
+require conf/multilib.conf
+MULTILIBS = "multilib:lib32"
+DEFAULTTUNE_virtclass-multilib-lib32 = "x86"
diff --git a/meta-skeleton/conf/multilib-example2.conf b/meta-skeleton/conf/multilib-example2.conf
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+#
+# Sample multilib configuration which the user can either add in local.conf
+# or specific in an configuration file like this, then require it.
+#
+# This configuration specifies an x86 64 bit machine as the main machine
+# type and then adds a multilib in the "libx32" directory where those
+# libraries are compiled with the "x86-64-x32" tune.
+#
+
+MACHINE = "qemux86-64"
+require conf/multilib.conf
+MULTILIBS = "multilib:libx32"
+DEFAULTTUNE_virtclass-multilib-libx32 = "x86-64-x32"
diff --git a/meta-skeleton/recipes-multilib/images/core-image-multilib-example.bb b/meta-skeleton/recipes-multilib/images/core-image-multilib-example.bb
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+#
+# An example of a multilib image
+#
+# This example includes a lib32 version of bash into an otherwise standard
+# sato image. It assumes a "lib32" multilib has been enabled in the user's
+# configuration (see the example conf files for examples of this.)
+#
+
+# First include a base image to base things off
+require recipes-core/images/core-image-sato.bb
+
+# Now add the multilib packages we want to install
+IMAGE_INSTALL += "lib32-bash"