Re: Dealing with two-abi architectures

"Christopher Yeoh" <[email protected]> writes:

> 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?

Nearly everything is 64-bit - but users have the choice to install
their old 32-bit applications.  I agree with your distinction, they're
their for compatibility and our distribution will run without them
just fine (with a few exceptions like Acrobat Reader where no 64-bit
version exists yet).

Andreas
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