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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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