On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 02:13:47PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > Package: glibc > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Finally, there is a patch which creates a 32bit i386 version of libc6 > on amd64 by adding an extra pass to glibc. The new packages 'libc6-i386' > and 'libc6-dev-i386' install the 32bit libc6 files in /usr/lib32, which > is a symlink to '/emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib'. This location may look a > bit strange first, but this is where the 'ia32-libs' package > installs all 32bit i386 libraries and files at the moment. > > The 'ia32-libs' package currently installs a libc6 binary package > which has been compiled by the i386 distribution. This is ugly because > it makes the whole amd64 distribution, especially the amd64 gcc compiler, > depend on binary packages from the i386 distribution. > > Of course the 'ia32-libs' package will also have to be changed, > so that it no longer installs libc6 by itself > but simply depends on libc6-i386 instead. > > The attached patch - together with a corresponding patch to ia32-libs - > has been used for a few weeks by the experimental amd64/gcc-3.4 archive > without problems so far.
When we do this for amd64, we ought to do the same thing for ia32 as well. Then amd64-libs can lose the libraries. [I didn't really look at the patch.] -- Daniel Jacobowitz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
