Handling multilib

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 04:52 -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> We certainly need to include 32-bit gdb, so that people with 32-bit PPC
> CPUs can debug things. 

Yes -- the whole multilib thing is basically ignored on 32-bit hardware.
When I say "install for 64-bit only" that's only relevant on 64-bit
hardware.

>  But I agree it is better on ppc64 kernel to install
> just 64-bit gdb, 64-bit frysk, 64-bit strace and whatever else falls into
> this category of packages that handle both 32-bit and 64-bit processes
> in 64-bit incarnation, but 32-bit incarnation handles solely 32-bit ones.

Well, strace doesn't actually manage that yet -- but it _should_ :)

> Some tools tightly coupled with the kernel for which sufficient ioctl 32-bit
> wrappers don't exist would fall here as well. 

Yes, if we can't fix the wrappers.

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