Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:46:17 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Cc: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] what to name linux 32-bit compat Message-ID: <200501172146.17965.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050117203818.GA29131@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20050117203818.GA29131@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Monday 17 January 2005 03:38 pm, David O'Brien wrote: > [ 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? Personally, I think /compat/linux32 and /compat/linux (for linux64) would be the best way to go. The idea being that /compat/linux runs native binaries on any given arch, and if there's more than one arch supported, the non-native ones get the funky names. I don't think it will really matter all to the end user much as acroread goes in /usr/local/bin and is in the path and that's all the user has to worry about. The ports stuff to put linux32 in /compat/linux32 on amd64 is going to be stuff the user doesn't have to worry or care about, so I don't think there's any user-visible benefit to linux and linux64 versus linux32 and linux. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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