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Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64



> On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:15:18AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > [2] build packages to take advantage of this:
> > 
> > 	[*] make important shared libs biarch
> > 	[*] list amd64 packages which don't export shared library
> > 	interfaces as supporting all architectures.
> > 	[*] introduce dependencies between important packages, reflecting
> > 	the needs of an install onto i386.
> > 
> > The straightforward approach to doing this and complying with LSB means
> > it would probably be a good idea to supress glibc warnings about both
> > kinds of libs in /lib and /usr/lib/.  So patch gcc to not issue that
> > warning if a specially named file is in a lib dir, and the archtectures
> > present are those listed in that specially named file.

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 02:35:58PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Where do you plan to install those 2 libs with the same name?

For packages which provide both, the amd64 instance goes in /lib64 and
the i386 instance goes in /lib

For other packages (any where there's an explicit IA32 package), the
current system is fine.

-- 
Raul



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