On 04-Apr-29 08:05, Jeff Bailey wrote: > I'm a bit concerned about amd64 - Have the discussions now been settled > for the whole true-64-bit-arch versus the everything-in-/libc64 thing? > > If you can refer me to specific mailing list postings that show > concensus, that'd be great.
I cannot speak for others on this matter. I followed the postings on the amd64 mailing list for some time and exchanged some mails with others who try to make the amd64 port work. As I see it, almost everybody is working in the direction of the 'pure64' port at the moment (with 'lib64' as just a symlink to 'lib' and without any support for 32bit libraries at this time). I do not know of any kind of 'official' consensus. However, I think that most people would agree that the right approach is to create a functional pure64-bit port as a first step and to add general multiarch support (as specified in http://www.linuxbase.org/~taggart/fhs-multiarch.html) to Debian later. A fully functional pure64-bit port for the amd64 architecture doesn't seem to be very far away. Many packages have already made the necessary changes. Most packages have been compiled for (pure64-bit) amd64 (I compiled about 8000 packages myself) and there is even a working installer for amd64. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
