From owner-freebsd-ia64 Mon Apr 15 0:41: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-36.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-36.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19BE337B404 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 00:40:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgate.nlsystems.com ([62.49.251.130] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-36.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16x16f-000Kf5-0a for ia64@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:40:57 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.12.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g3F7euaf007853 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:40:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:40:56 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Subject: Re: i386 compatibility ... In-Reply-To: <20020413114828.A25574@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: <20020415083909.O26844-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 03:51:22PM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: > > ... is coming along nicely: > ... > > I'll be trying to get shared libraries going next. > > Before you get too far ahead we should discuss shared libraries, as > x86-64 will need to do this also. Will we build i386 shared libs? It > seems we would want to. Will we just have the user install a compat lib? > Considering the speed at which -current moves.... Initially, I'm just going to copy a set from an i386 current box. Long term, I'm not sure. Given that the main aim for this is for binary compatiblity with FreeBSD/i386, perhaps a package containing a suitable set of libraries from -stable would be sufficient? -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message