Re: On including 64-bit libs in 32-bit packages (see #344104)

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
>
>> If I'm reading the function int10LinuxLoadSubModule in
>> os-support/linux/int10/linux.c right, it shouldn't matter.  vm86 will
>> return ENOSYS, which will cause vm86_tst to fail, which will cause the X
>> server to use x86emu instead of vm86.
>> 
>> Or am I missing something?
>
> The x86emu code doesn't get built on i386, does it? It doesn't look like 
> the INT10_VM86 and INT10_X86EMU conditionals can both be set 
> simultaneously.

That would be a reason to write a bug to X about it but not a reason
to exclude 64bit kernels. :)

MfG
        Goswin