On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 09:56:39AM +0200, Hendrik Tews wrote: > Dear all, > > I would like to raise other trivial questions for which I cannot > find answers in the AMD64 HOWTO or via google: > > - What does pure64 mean? When do I want pure64? pure64 is the name that was given to the native recompile of Debian for amd64 without using the lib64 directories specified in the LSB, which would have caused a lot of work to have been done. Instead of doing this extra work some people decided to solve the problem in a better generic way that all archs can benefit from which is called multiarch. > - Same for biarch, what does it mean, when do I want it? biarch has turned into multiarch which is the work on getting multiple archs libs installed at the same time. You will for example be able to have: /usr/lib/i386-linux/libvorbis.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux/libvorbis.so.1.0.0 on the same system and have it work right. However, this support will not be finished before sarge and will likely be in the sarge+1 release, since it requires modified gcc/glibc/binutils and package modifications to every library package. This work is intended to be rolled back into FHS/LSB at some future time, if Rusty likes it enough (I guess?). Chris Cheney
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