multilib fun - devel packages
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Dec 12 18:44:14 UTC 2005
Jakub Jelinek (jakub at redhat.com) said:
> But that's just rpm bug, it shouldn't always prefer 64bit rpms over 32bit
> ones, instead decide based on how it was configured.
> For x86_64, it should be obviously defined to prefer 64bit, I think
> on s390x similarly (there 64-bit code can do direct calls rather than
> go through the literal pool all the time etc.). On ppc and sparc
> it should on the other side prefer 32bit rpms over 64bit.
This runs into problems on ppc64 installs when the ioctl/etc
compatiblity layer is either a) missing b) broken.
Bill
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