[Pc_Support] Now 64-bit ... no real issues except Firefox x86-64 (replaced with Firefox i386)

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 20:11 -0400, Austin Denyer wrote:
> I run the Pure64 version of Debian,

_All_ libraries in the distro are /lib64.
_All_ programs that are x86-46 capable in the distro are linked to them.
Then in addition, there are some i386 libs in /lib.

This includes a lot of the libraries required for games.

Apparently HelixPlayer is not x86-64 "clean" so that's not a Red Hat
issue.  I didn't find anything else that wasn't x86-64.  I didn't see
any libraries that were only i386 -- they were all x86-64, with a few
libraries that also were i386 for compatibility.

But why they included HelixPlayer i386, but didn't step back on
Mozilla/Firefox which are included as "pure" x86-64 in the release, is
beyond me.  It would make more sense to me for Red Hat to ship
Mozilla/Firefox i386, even in the x86-64 version.

> and the way I get around the 64vs32 binary problem is to use a 32bit
> chroot environment.  It works great.  

I guess that is one way to do it.
/lib64 and /lib is another, but that only helps libraries.

I wonder what LSB says.

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