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Date:      Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:19:14 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: amd64/82178: missing 32bit subsystem
Message-ID:  <20050614071914.GD55703@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050613212626.GC6385@ip.net.ua>
References:  <200506122320.j5CNKQAF023114@freefall.freebsd.org> <20050613021258.GA5242@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050613071337.GA25893@ip.net.ua> <200506131122.28463.peter@wemm.org> <20050613192423.GC4323@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050613212626.GC6385@ip.net.ua>

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On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:26:26AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:24:23PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:22:28AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > > On Monday 13 June 2005 12:13 am, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 07:12:58PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > > > There is a known issue that there are some missing bits in the 5.4
> > > > > src/release/Makefile such that the 'base' tarball doesn't contain
> > > > > the 32-bit ld.so and 32-bit shared libs.
> > > >
> > > > This should be fixed in Makefile.inc1, not in release/Makefile.
> > > 
> > > That looks a step in the right direction, but I wonder if we can have 
> > > this stuff in a seperate sysinstall-selectable distribution instead of 
> > > the base dist?
> > 
> > Agreed, it would be nice to have more granularity in our install bits.
> >  
> OK, I will do it (modulo the sysinstall part).

I can do that part if you like.  Just send the patch that will create the
32compat/ directory and splited 32compat.XY files.

Is 32compat or 32bit a suitable name, or do we want a different one?
"compat32" may be confused with FreeBSD-3.2 compatibility libs.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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