On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 03:27:44PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Martin Schulze (joey@infodrom.org) wrote: > > It has always been an issue. Since AMD64 will probably be adopted > > commercially, there will be third party applications, that will only > > run on other distributions and not on Debian, which would make the > > Debian port pretty useless if you want to run only one other third > > party application which was compiled for another distribution. > > Have you actually tried running a 64bit application from another > distribution on pure64? Do you have a specific technical reason why it > wouldn't work? I don't. I'd love to hear of any that exist. 32bit This doesn't normally work even for i386 anyway, that is why LSB exists to define a special set a libraries that a LSB system has, etc. > applications won't work on pure64, but you could install i386 on an > amd64 system and use those 32bit applications there if you want. The > only place I'm aware of a possible compatibility problem is if you want > to install a third party application that has both 32bit and 64bit > applications in it and you want to use them both at the same time and > under the same system. That seems like it'd be a pretty small number of > cases. Oracle, for example, has seperate CDs for their 64bit version > from their 32bit one (at least on Solaris). For running 32bit on pure64 there is ia32-libs which should allow it to work. If your 32bit apps needs more 32bit libs than ia32-libs provides you can extract them manually into the dir that ia32-libs creates aiui. Just like on ia64... I believe that some of the pure64 porters have tested it, but I have no binary only software myself. Chris
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