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Re: libc6-ppc64 on an Alubook 5,8?



Hi Johannes

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:38:44PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 16:41 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> 
> > I'm relatively sure it was a decision by the package management system
> > to install it, and not my intention. And it looks as if it were
> > installed the first time with previous versions quite some time ago
> > ...
> 
> Well, you probably did a 'apt-get build-dep ...' or similar.

Maybe, yes. But the modification time of the first .deb package I see
in the local apt archives cache seems to be March this year ... I
don't remember what was going on at this time ...

> 
> > Does it make *any* sense to have this package being installed here?
> 
> Only if you want to compile packages that have ppc64 specific binaries,

Interesting. So this means it should be possible to compile some
software on my 32-bit system for a ppc64 one? 

> you'll never be able to actually use those libs.

This is the important point I need to know. Thanks a lot .. :)

Best Regards
Wolfgang

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