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Debian multiarch support

Debian multiarch support

Posted May 19, 2006 3:58 UTC (Fri) by jwb (guest, #15467)
In reply to: Debian multiarch support by dmantione
Parent article: Debian multiarch support

This is the sort of parochial redhatism that led to the creation of the Debian amd64 (formerly
pure64) architecture. /lib64 is deeply broken for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact
that 64 is the native word length on some platforms and many people don't want to have 32-bit
binaries or libraries on their systems at all.


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Debian multiarch support

Posted May 19, 2006 19:19 UTC (Fri) by msw (subscriber, #3733) [Link]

Red Hat did not invent lib64. It was in use in Irix well before it appeared in Linux (to my knowledge).

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