Re: junk showing up in /emul/ia32-linux
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:09:33AM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote:
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>>Nope. It's not 64-bit clean source code. Besides, I'm
>>an old TeX-head, and TeX works just fine.
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> Sounds like a great choice to me.
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>
>>Jo Shields wrote:
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>>>or lilo/grub
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>>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.
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> It isn't even 32bit mode when the boot loader starts.
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>>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?
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> I doubt it would be cleaner.
At the very least you wouldn't need to overcome years of muscle memory
typing /e<tab> for /etc. To me that's the wors thing about
/emul/ia32-linux -- they should have named it something else.
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