On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 04:06:26PM -0800, T. Joseph CARTER wrote:
> It seems that the QA on Ubuntu is really not very good for amd64.  Things
> that don't get installed automatically seem to just not work very well (or
> at all!)  For example, the version of lynx provided by ubuntu doesn't work
> correctly (though lynx-cur does..)  mplayer-amd64 sig11s pretty quickly,
> while mplayer does not, unless you run it from acidrip.  dvdrip can't find
> transcode sitting in the directory next to it--haven't sorted that one out
> yet.  Various programs just segfault immediately when run..
> 
> I've been noticing this over the past several weeks, and I wonder if
> Ubuntu is really ready for amd64 as a result.

does it use /usr/lib & /usr/lib64 foo?  if it does. this is likely
the source of some of the problems.  the autotools just don't deal with
such a situation very gracefully, yet.  as a result, it's really easy
to make libtool use the wrong libraries.

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