Re: 64-bit *libraries* in 32-bit repositories???
> On 2009-07-20 09:19, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2009-07-20 14:52 +0200, David Fox wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Ron Johnson<ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>>>> But why the opposite, like lib64bz2-1.0 in the i386 repository?
>>> Maybe just for the converse reason, running amd64 binaries on a mostly
>>> 32-bit userland setup. I guess this would work with a 32-bit kernel.
>>
>> Not a chance, a 64-bit kernel is required to run any 64-bit binary.
On 20.07.09 11:11, Ron Johnson wrote:
> So if you're running a 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userland, it would
> theoretically be useful. But there's no "bzip2-64" in the i386 repos.
bzip2 is linked with libbz2, it's quite possible that kernel select those
64bit libraries in order to give apps a speed benefit when running 64bit
kernel
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