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Re: Mostly 32-bit possible?



Le Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:57:44PM -0600, Gary Hennigan écrivait/wrote:
> I'm considering the purchase of a dual-opteron rig and have some
> questions. In general I don't care about anything being 64-bit, except
> my own applications. These are scientific applications developed using
> MPICH (g++-3.3 + MPICH MPI libraries). Is it feasible/possible to just
> install the 32-bit "testing" release, for example, and still be able
> to compile and run my own code in 64-bit mode?

> My main concern with going full-blown 64 is some commercial apps that
> I rely on that currently don't have 64-bit builds.


I thought that the standard advice on these is to run the 32 bits
applications in a 32 bits chroot, as suggested by the ia32-libs
package. I don't use any commercial applications my self, so (for me)
this is only theory, I've got no practical experience.



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