Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 22:22:35 +0100 From: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> To: Coleman Kane <zombyfork@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: 32-bit X libs? Message-ID: <61c746830602011322x13bfe7ddwfb81ba0eaf358658@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <346a80220601281153y5f3c201ex8049a544a4f1ccea@mail.gmail.com> References: <XFMail.20060126210404.conrads@cox.net> <43D9A099.8060909@samsco.org> <20060127043323.GA31513@xor.obsecurity.org> <61c746830601270414w44e868b9q77dd50565bc448b6@mail.gmail.com> <346a80220601281153y5f3c201ex8049a544a4f1ccea@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1/28/06, Coleman Kane <zombyfork@gmail.com> wrote: > > What about this... > > Install 32-bit FreeBSD into ia32. and then make another ports dir there. > Then run against the 32-bit make binary that would be in there somewhere? > You could have all of the /*/(lib,bin,sbin,libexec)32 dirs as symlinks in= to > this compat section, making it easy to remove and replace your 32-bit > userland should it be necessary. > > I know on that Mac OS X, the solution is to make every dynamic binary hav= e > ppc,ppc64, and x86 sections in it (effectively 3 binaries archived in one > file) using Mach-O binaries. Dunno if this type of thing is possible, or > even desireable under ELF (or just for the FreeBSD community in general). > > It would be really cool to have the 32-bit userland (on amd64) be able to > install ports easily on the system choosing either 32 or 64 with a make > option. > > -- > coleman kane > That sounds nice, but I can't take care of it as I, ironically, have no working amd64 box. It would be great if someone else could take care of tha= t Regards, Antoine
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