Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64
> > > Care to explain how not having any 64bit userland would be better?
> >
> > It'll be a lot easier to support 64/32 bit userland this way.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 06:15:23PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Uh, nope, wrong... We're going to be moving to multiarch on all archs,
> so this just isn't accurate.
You've yet to demonstrate any conflict between 64/32 bit userland
and multiarch.
The only conflict I've seen is the decision to make /lib be the
default directory for 64 bit libraries on amd64. This has
little if anything to do with multiarch -- multiarch certainly
does not require this.
> > I've got 64+32 bit userland because my toolchain (binutils+gcc+libc)
> > was built that way.
>
> That doesn't work for Debian though, it's no where near that simple. At
> one point we did have a biarch toolchain almost entirely built, but
> that's not really the issue here- it's changing all of the library
> packages which will be quite a bit of pain.
How much pain?
Why did you give up on biarch?
[Was it only because "multiarch is better than biarch"?]
Thanks,
--
Raul
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