Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:38:18 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: [RFC] what to name linux 32-bit compat Message-ID: <20050117203818.GA29131@dragon.nuxi.com>
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[ Respect the Reply-to:! ] /usr/ports Linux 32-bit compatibility on AMD64 is a mess and too rough for what is expected of FreeBSD. Anyway... We need to decide how to have both Linux i686 and Linux amd64 compat support live side-by-side. At the moment my leanings are for /compat/linux32 and /compat/linux. We could also go with /compat/linux and /compat/linux64 <- taking a page from the Linux LSB naming convention (ie, they have lib and lib64). Linux 32-bit support is most interesting -- that is how we get Acrobat reader and some other binary-only ports. The only Linux 64-bit things we might want to run that truly matter 32-bit vs. 64-bit is Oracle and IBM-DB2. For other applications 32-bit vs. 64-bit is mostly a "Just Because Its There(tm)" thing. So making Linux 32-bit support the cleanest looking from a /usr/ports POV has some merit. What do others think? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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