On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Ian Malone <ibmal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21 January 2016 at 14:25, Dennis Gilmore <den...@ausil.us> wrote: > >> >> However I really think we need to sit down and rethink multilib. I would >> like >> to start by changing the multilib method to runtime. So you only get runtime >> libraries and nothing to build 32 bit apps on 64 bit. For 32 bit building you >> should just use mock, docker, systemd-nspawn or something else. It would mean >> we need to make and ship a i386 docker base image if we say use docker. >> >> We have dropped most multilib support already. Today s390x has multilib with >> s390 and x86_64 multilib with i386.we dropped 32 bit ppc support entirely, we >> are working to drop s390 which will leave x86_64 standing all alone. Given >> changes in technologies since x86_64 first became a thing I think we sit back >> and reevaluate the idea of multilib. Maybe there is better ways to achieve >> what we want today > > Successfully build and run 20+ year old programs without having to > completely rewrite them would be one of the things I want today. In > fact it's one of the things I was doing earlier this week.
Is there a reason that would not work in mock? josh -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
