[F8/multilib] {,/usr}/{,s}bin64

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sat May 5 01:22:08 UTC 2007


On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:34:25AM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> There's a lot of lower power devices which are still 32-bit only and are
> going to be for quite a while as far as I can see.  And being able to
> trivially build for them is one of the reasons why you go for x86 for
> them instead of an embedded specific chip like an arm or a mips.
> The compatibility and the fact that it's all but entirely transparent is
> a huge part of the value of the x86->x86_64 transition.

But couldn't we make a chrooted build environment near-transparent too? Then
it'd have those advantages on all architectures, *for* all architectures --
and for craziness like mingw32 -- without causing massive complexity for the
normal server or desktop case.

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