Re: libc6

[Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>]

But I think what was missed from the consideration at the start point of
the project is "fat binaries"

there was some discussion in general debian forum
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg01035.html

If we just packed both i386 and x86_64 binaries in the same file... we
wouldn't have any problems probably at all...


--Yarik

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:55:54AM -0700, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05 2003 at 10:39,
> Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> wrote:
> 
> > Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> writes:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:54:00AM -0700, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > >> Hmm, ok.. so to clarify I meant something like: /usr/amd64/{bin,lib}
> > >> Being able to seperate out the 64bit libs and binaries is the goal.
> > > Again - how would you resolve when you type in in command line "top" -
> > > which app it should use 32bit or 64bit?
> > 
> > The obvious answer seems to be "whichever is first in $PATH".  Is
> > there some case I'm missing where the user or system administrator
> > cannot get proper behavior by setting PATH (for example, set
> > PATH=/usr/amd64/bin:/usr/bin to prefer 64-bit executables)?
> 
> I 100% agree; simply assuming 64bit binaries are better is a _very_ flawed
> design; and imposes enourmous restrictions on just how rich the debian
> bi-arch support can be.
> 
> There are convenient tools to help manage your shell's environment, e.g.:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/env-switcher/
> 
> Mike
> 
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