[Fedora-directory-users] Re: [Fedora-directory-announce] Announcing Fedora Directory Server 1.0.2

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 11:09, Richard Megginson wrote:
> >
> >>In addition, there are no pre-built native 64 bit Apache and Perl 
> >>binaries that we can use.  We require native 64 bit because all of our 
> >>components are native 64 bit, and we'd rather not get into the business 
> >>of having to ship the full contingent of 32 bit components with our 64 
> >>bit distribution - harder to build, harder to manage, package size 
> >>bloat, etc. etc.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Aren't libraries almost certain to get out of sync on platforms
> >with 32/64 bit capabilities if you don't bundle both versions
> >in all binary distributions?
> >  
> >
> I'm not sure I understand.  For Solaris, we plan on having a native 32 
> bit version (only 32 bit components) and a native 64 bit version (only 
> 64 bit components).  Same as we have now on linux.  The linux i386 
> packages contain only 32 bit components, and the x86_64 packages contain 
> only 64 bit components.

If none of the components can successfully interact, I suppose
it doesn't matter.  However, if you include both client and
server libraries, shouldn't you be able to use a 32-bit app
that needs client libraries to access a 64-bit server running
on the same box?  Or vice-versa?

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com