Re: Dealing with two-abi architectures

At 2003/8/13 09:35+0200  Andreas Jaeger writes:
> "Christopher Yeoh" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > I believe AMD64 is different in that at least one distribution intends
> > on shipping everything 64 bit like IA-64. So in this case we should
> > just build a 64 bit SI.
> 
> At least Mandrake, Red Hat and SuSE ship also 32-bit libs.  But see my
> other mail, you can just take the SI from a 32-bit system...
> 

Sure, but most of your system binaries are 64-bit aren't they? Eg
32-bit libraries are there for compatibility, not an integral part of
the system like on ppc64 systems. Or did I misunderstand before?

Chris
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