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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag "multilib"
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 18:05:54
Message-Id: 20040526190401.3f54005a@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] New global use flag "multilib" by Danny van Dyk
1 On Wed, 26 May 2004 19:42:49 +0200 Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 | So what's multilib ? At the moment it's an amd64 only global useflag,
4 | but probably other 64bit archs which can execute and compile 32bit
5 | binary will consider it usable too.
6
7 We'll probably use this on sparc at some point. Unlike amd64, we'll be
8 going for a mainly 32bit userland with a few 64bit libraries.
9
10 Thing is, we kinda need gcc 3.4 to do it, and gcc 3.4 won't build glibc
11 just yet, so it could be a while...
12
13 --
14 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox)
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