Re: junk showing up in /emul/ia32-linux
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:09:33AM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> Nope. It's not 64-bit clean source code. Besides, I'm
> an old TeX-head, and TeX works just fine.
Sounds like a great choice to me.
> Jo Shields wrote:
> > or lilo/grub
>
> That's a strange special case, since I guess the BIOS jumps
> to the boot sector code in 32-bit mode. I suppose in the long
> run I could "fix" that problem by running LinuxBIOS.
It isn't even 32bit mode when the boot loader starts.
> How did grub manage to get built before the days of
> /emul/ia32-linux? And that need can hardly explain libg2c0-dev
> libgfortran0-dev. Unless someone rewrote grub in Fortran when
> I wasn't looking. ;-)
>
> Will multi-arch make the situation cleaner or dirtier for
> people like me who only want support for one arch variant?
I doubt it would be cleaner.
Len Sorensen
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