[mythtv] Configure Script & 64bit Libraries

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:01:18PM +0100, Stuart Morgan wrote:
> Which is very interesting but it brings us full-circle to what Hamish said - 
> "Which ugly distribution requires this?"
> 
> I think the Redhat (Fedora), Mandrake et al approach of putting 32bit libs in 
> "/usr/lib" and 64bit libs in "/usr/lib64" is much neater and much simpler 
> than using chroot and creating lib paths such as 
> "/var/chroot/sid-ia32/usr/lib"

Some Debian people are talking about "multiarch", which will have 32-bit
and 64-bit libraries installed in different directories so you can
easily run a mix of applications.

But the main need to run 32-bit apps on a 64-bit machine is for non-free
apps that you can't recompile. The current "pure64" implementation is
just fine in most scenarios.


Hamish
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