Multiarch crazyiness
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Tue Oct 23 14:39:53 UTC 2007
David Woodhouse writes:
>
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 15:26 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > There is one case where we do. Sometimes people will have a need for
> > both 32-bit and 64-bit Java virtual machines.
> >
> > For example, one user may have a small Java application that runs best
> > on a 32-bit VM (or maybe even has a native library that hasn't been
> > ported to 64 bits) and at the same time another user is running an
> > application that needs the huge memory of a 64-bit VM. In that case,
> > you need two binaries called java, one 32-bit and one 64-bit. I don't
> > think there's any way around this.
>
> I thought we'd fixed (or worked around, if you prefer) that a while ago,
> by putting it somewhere under %{_libdir}/java/ ?
That's a solution.
All I'm saying is that there _is_ a case where you want "both [32- and
64-bit] versions of a binary installed at the same time". There are
lots of ways to fix the problem, of course.
Andrew.
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