Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > rowland wrote on Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 10:25:44PM +0100 : > > On Sunday 06 October 2002 12:52 pm, you wrote: > > why does redhat 8.0 work but mandrake 9.0 does not? obviously someone must > > RedHat is compiled for i386. Mandrake is compiled for i586. That
For glibc, RH uses two separate packages, glibc-<version>.i386.rpm and glibc-<version>.i686.rpm; mandrake does it differently: only one package but there is the i686 optimized version in /lib/i686, which is dynamically used when the kernel tells that the processor is i686 compatible. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
