On 02/10/2013 02:05 PM, Armin K. wrote: > I don't think it is worth the effort for 32/64bit only distros. Debian > runs on nearly everything and it's worth the effort - especially for > ARM. I've watched their multiarch talk at Debconf in Bosnia and > Herzegovina. Major advantage of the multiarch is so you can easily > "cross compile stuff". Useful if you have powerful x86_64 machine, but > want to build packages for ARM or Mips platforms ...
I only cross for arm-linux-eabi currently (Android), but another advantage is that you can supposedly run locally via qemu if desired. I plan to check out FFOS at some point in the future too, but I already have other ways of doing that in place. I was really more interested in killing off the /lib<qual> issue (the ongoing standards debate). I'm already running multilib with /lib and /lib64, the "current" standard (as of 2004). This just seems to be a much cleaner way of handling it when it comes up again in a few years. > As for running the packages, it's simply not worth. I did a bootstrap of > multilib compiler and glibc on "Pure 64bit LFS" - using /lib32 and > /usr/lib32 ... I don't have any issues, althrough I don't remember what > I really did to bootstrap it all - I had to build GCC and Glibc 2 or 3 > times :| > It's been a while since I had that setup. The default Android toolchain that shipped in the SDK gave some issues, although I complained about it for a bit and don't really remember what the problem was, it turned out not to be a big deal to work around, but by the time I had found that out, I had already started on the standards path. -- DJ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
