Re: Upcoming Debian multiarch support (amd64, sparc64, s390x, mips64) [affects sarge slightly]

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:47:15AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

> And yes, the only real long term reason for 32bit amd64 support is
> "COMMERCIAL NON-FREE BINARY-ONLY crap". The reason for /lib64 and
> /usr/lib64 on the other hand is compatibility with other linux
> distributions.

Speaking of compatibility, are you following the LSB activity in this area?

http://www.linuxbase.org/~matsw/multi-arch.html

> And its a completly different world for sparc64, mips64, s390x, ppc64.
> Arguing about amd64 not needing 32bit doesn't help at all. There are still
> 4 archs left that do need it. Multiarch support is comming one way or the
> other, live with it. The question is how not if.

Interestingly, the page above categorizes x86_64 with s390x (64-bit native)
rather than with ppc64 and ia64 (32-bit native, 64-bit capable).  Oddly, it
doesn't mention sparc64.

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 - mdz