Re: amd64 as default architecture
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 07:27:21PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>, 2012-05-20, 03:16:
> >5. Installer for i386 prefers amd64 kernel on any capable machine
> >(that's a one-line change!) and adds amd64 as secondary
> >architecture if this is selected.
>
> We have still some software that doesn't work with 64-bit kernel,
> and (worse!) some maintainers claiming it's not a bug.
Are you thinking of build systems using 'uname -m' to detect the
target architecture? It is possible to work around those using
setarch. But how do they build on sparc or s390 now?
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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