| Chris Cheney 2004-07-03, 8:48 pm |
| On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 03:27:44PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Martin Schulze (joey@infodrom.org) wrote:
>
> Have you actually tried running a 64bit application from another
> distribution on pure64? Do you have a specific technical reason why it
> wouldn't work? I don't. I'd love to hear of any that exist. 32bit
This doesn't normally work even for i386 anyway, that is why LSB exists
to define a special set a libraries that a LSB system has, etc.
> applications won't work on pure64, but you could install i386 on an
> amd64 system and use those 32bit applications there if you want. The
> only place I'm aware of a possible compatibility problem is if you want
> to install a third party application that has both 32bit and 64bit
> applications in it and you want to use them both at the same time and
> under the same system. That seems like it'd be a pretty small number of
> cases. Oracle, for example, has seperate CDs for their 64bit version
> from their 32bit one (at least on Solaris).
For running 32bit on pure64 there is ia32-libs which should allow it to
work. If your 32bit apps needs more 32bit libs than ia32-libs provides
you can extract them manually into the dir that ia32-libs creates aiui.
Just like on ia64... I believe that some of the pure64 porters have
tested it, but I have no binary only software myself.
Chris
|