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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: multilib and the compatibility to singlelib
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:20:36
Message-Id: hbkgub$s58$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multilib and the compatibility to singlelib by Michael Haubenwallner
1 On 10/20/2009 04:06 PM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
2 >
3 > Isn't the intention of multilib to have a new (64bit) system
4 > be compatible with the corresponding old (32bit) system?
5
6 I'm not sure I understand the whole procedure you use to build this app.
7 Why not simply use -m32 when building it? Why build a whole toolchain?
8
9 Anyway, as for the question of multilib's intention, yes, it's to have a
10 64-bit and 32-bit userland at the same time. But it doesn't work fully
11 on Gentoo, which is why the effort for real multilib support has started
12 in the first place.