Re: ia32 compatibility and gcc-3.0
rick@kuroyi.net (Rick Haines) writes:
> The packages are there but I was getting version conflicts. Something
> about one of the packages requiring (<< 3.0.2); I'll check it for sure
> when I get t work tomorrow.
You should be able to have both gcc-2.96 and gcc-3.0 installed at the same
time, *but* you cannot have g++-2.96 and g++-3.0 installed at the same time
because the required development version of the runtime libraries is different
and conflicting for the two.
>> doubt ia32 binaries can run on a stock Debian system at the moment without
>> some additional work. Is there interest in having this support? In many
>> cases it is easier to just recompile the application.
>
> I have not been having good success building mozilla. I'm also
> attempting to try Intel's compilers which have some necessary ia32
> executables for some reason (checking w/ intel on this).
The kernels I deliver in the prepackaged kernel-image packages have the ia32
subsystem enabled. Therefore, I would expect any statically-linked ia32
executables that make no other assumptions about the availability of ia32 bits
in the filesystem to work ... but I haven't checked that. Anything that needs
shared libraries will require some hand-crafting of the right pieces for now,
we are currently discussing how best to handle this for the Debian woody
release, since the dpkg team doesn't want to work on a general solution until
after woody releases.
Bdale
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