Le lun 21/04/2003 à 19:52, José Luis Tallón a écrit : > IMVHO, there is an intermediate alternative: why not ... > ... create a new x86-64 architecture > ... tweak dpkg so that ${DEB_ARCH}=="x86-64" admits both i386 and x86-64 > binaries; > Naturally, x86-64 ("native") would be preferred to i386 when available. If > there is no x86-64 binary, use i386 instead; Sky is blue, life is good ... This won't work, because you can't mix 32 and 64 bits code or libraries. I think the appropriate solution is to make it a completely new arch, with 32 bits compatibility libraries (at least glibc and xlibs) allowing to run 32 bits proprietary software. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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