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From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: fat binaries
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:31:53
Message-Id: 1289777438.26868.2.camel@yamato.local
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] fat binaries by Thomas Kahle
1 Il giorno dom, 14/11/2010 alle 22.03 +0100, Thomas Kahle ha scritto:
2 > I have a package (sci-libs/mpir) whose configure supports building of
3 > fat binaries with both x86 and amd64 assembler in the binary.
4
5 Oh the heck are they implemented? If they are FatELF, no they shouldn't
6 be used, ever, full stop.
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8 In most cases, this sounds fishy and almost a hack deemed to failure so
9 my default vote would be "do not expose this functionality to the user".
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Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-dev] Re: fat binaries Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: fat binaries Thomas Kahle <tomka@g.o>