Re: ia32 compatibility and gcc-3.0
>>>>> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:16:46 -0700, Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org> said:
>> ia32 legacy support is certainly needed (essential) in any
>> complete distribution. How else are you going to run stuff like
>> realplay, acrobat reader, etc. Also, if you think getting
>> mozilla to run on ia64 was a simple "recompile", you might want
>> to reconsider (it was far from that and even now there are some
>> compiler stability issues).
Randolph> FWIW the Progeny folks have gotten mozilla to build on
Randolph> ia64 and have made unofficial debs available for some time
Randolph> now.
I know. Guess who supplied them with the patches to get going... ;-)
Don't get me wrong: I'm a very strong advocate of native ia64
binaries, but that doesn't mean ia32 support isn't important as well.
--david
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