Bug#246547: glibc: amd64 support is missing

[Andreas Jochens <aj@andaco.de>]

On 04-Apr-29 08:05, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> I'm a bit concerned about amd64 - Have the discussions now been settled
> for the whole true-64-bit-arch versus the everything-in-/libc64 thing?
> 
> If you can refer me to specific mailing list postings that show
> concensus, that'd be great.

I cannot speak for others on this matter. I followed the  
postings on the amd64 mailing list for some time and exchanged some 
mails with others who try to make the amd64 port work. As I see it, 
almost everybody is working in the direction of the 'pure64' port 
at the moment (with 'lib64' as just a symlink to 'lib' and 
without any support for 32bit libraries at this time).

I do not know of any kind of 'official' consensus. However, I think 
that most people would agree that the right approach is 
to create a functional pure64-bit port as a first step and 
to add general multiarch support (as specified in 
http://www.linuxbase.org/~taggart/fhs-multiarch.html) to Debian later.

A fully functional pure64-bit port for the amd64 architecture doesn't 
seem to be very far away. Many packages have already made the necessary 
changes. Most packages have been compiled for (pure64-bit) amd64 
(I compiled about 8000 packages myself) and there is even a working 
installer for amd64.

Regards
Andreas Jochens