From: Ken H. <ke...@ha...> - 2006-02-20 15:04:52
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Tony Houghton wrote: > In <883...@ma...>, Michel Salim wrote: > >> Looking forward to it. Thanks for the response .. correct me wrong, >> but it looks like the easy solution would be to assume that x86_64 >> users have 32-bit compatibility libraries installed (either chroot-ed >> for Debian/Ubuntu users or multilib) and assume it's a valid >> architecture? > > I disagree. I don't think Debian/Ubuntu has adequate support in what > passes for its multilib, and I think without ROX-Filer and/or > ROX-Session being partially rewritten to support a chroot explicitly, > that would constrain the entire desktop to running in the chroot. I pretty much agree. I think a hierarchy (fallback from 64 to 32 bit) would be a better choice. Or a manual orverride of some kind. My system is ppc64 kernel, but all ppc(32) userland - gentoo is just now getting ppc multilib working. I have to maintain uname/arch wrappers to ensure that things build correctly. |