[gobolinux-users] Re: AMD64 support?

[teique]

Carlo Calica wrote:
> On 2/9/06, Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon at kymatica.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:37:00 -0800
>> Carlo Calica <ccalica at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have one.  The big hangup for me is the package store.  I don't want
>>> to give up the 32bit store.  To keep that we'd need multiarch support
>>> for Scripts which greatly increase the work involved.
>> What about the --i686-- suffix on the packages? What does uname -m
>> print on an AMD64?
>>
>
> Detecting the difference isn't the problem.  Using both 32 and 64 apps
> with appropriate libs at the same time is.  Need to add support for
> both /Programs and /Programs64 (or /Programs32).  Then add
> S/L/Libraries64 (or 32).    It is a whole lot of work for less %
> increase than overclocking.
>
> But a supported binary package store would solve the problem of
> needing 32bit userland too.
I am thinking on recompiling absolutely everything in 64 bits to run 
into my Athlon 64, every package..

The point is, running 32bit applications at same time of 64bit will 
cause any trouble?
or the problem is loading 32bit libs into 64bits apps (well that sounds 
messy for sure ^^).
>  The few real needs (maybe wine) could be
> handled as a chroot.
u say that cuz windows apps (binaries) are 32bits right? I thought wine 
would handle it in some way..
>
> --
> Carlo J. Calica
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