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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] x86 vs amd64 :: ppc vs ppc64 (was sys-apps is too big)
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 02:49:35
Message-Id: 200503032150.05983.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] x86 vs amd64 :: ppc vs ppc64 (was sys-apps is too big) by Kumba
1 On Thursday 03 March 2005 09:32 pm, Kumba wrote:
2 > The only differences between sparc32 and mips32 is a literal `sed -e
3 > "s/sparc/mips/g"`. I've often wondered if sparc32, mips32, linux32, and
4 > any other such tools can't be merged into a single command that names
5 > itself appropriately depending on the HOST arch it's compiled on (or arch
6 > defined by a configure --target statement for crossbuilds).
7
8 the x86 one is pretty simple too ... really they all just call the
9 personality() syscall and then execvp() the args passed in
10 -mike
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