Multilib lunar

[Dennis Veatch]

On Thursday 03 September 2009 8:02:49 am Peter de Ridder wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Dennis
> 
> Veatch<dennisveatch at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 September 2009 6:13:16 am Peter de Ridder wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Auke Kok<sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
> >> > Peter de Ridder wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> My motives are that some programs I want to use don't come in a 32-bit
> >> version and more important I like to do it as a hobby project. So for
> >> me it wouldn't be waste time, but spend time.
> >> I know there are other solutions like chroot.
> >
> > Aside from those noted in this thread, would you mind listing the
> > applications that makes this an important feature of lunar?
> 
> It is about the modules you noted later on. grub, wine and maybe some
> other emulators. (I don't know all the modules, for me it is mostly
> grub and wine). It is not my goal to make all modules in 64-bit and
> 32-bit. Just to support those that really need 32-bit.
> What is know of that needs 32-bit.
> grub: not many or no dependencies.

I think grub is more of an up stream issue than anything else. If the 
developers would just finish grub2 it would be a non-issue. qemu/kqemu compile 
fine on x86_64 but have not tried any others.

At one point I had virtualbox nearly compiling on x86_64. The make failed on 
some assembly stuff and anything I might have known about it has long since 
been forgotten.


> wine: this would mean alot of X libraries need to have 32-bit.
> virtualbox: the website claims to work on 64-bit too.
> Phun: this is a binary package which also has a 64-bit version, it is
> not my intention to support the 32-bit version of this. (Added as an
> example).
> 
> I hope this clarifies my intentions.
> 
> > "Useless" is perhaps the wrong description. Its more like the few
> > perceived modules that are 32 bit only versus the number of modules we
> > have. Besides grub, wine and virtualbox, I cannot think of anything in
> > moonbase that has this limitation, there may be a few others but none
> > come to mind. So I think it goes back the the 32 bit apps you want to use
> > but haven't specified what those are.
> 
> Regards,
> Peter
> 

-- 
Dennis
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