On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Antoine Latter <aslat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Eugene Kirpichov <ekirpic...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi cafe, >> >> Ubuntu 11.10 has been released, which includes support for "multiarch" >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec >> >> Am I right that this will facilitate compiling Haskell code into x86 >> binaries on an x64 machine? >> > > This would make it easier, but GHC is not a cross-compiling compiler, > so you'd still need to install a separate GHC executable for 32-bit > compiling. > > This makes it so that apt can handle installing the 32-bit libraries > to link against in a sane way, which I'm sure helps. >
Ah, I was assuming here that multi-arch support only covered libraries, not applications and tools. It looks like some applications will be flagged as multiarch, so maybe you'll be able to install two GHCs side-by-side with apt. Interesting! > Antoine > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
