Debian x86_64 port ready

Posted Jun 13, 2004 2:53 UTC (Sun) by calc (guest, #22286)
In reply to: Debian x86_64 port ready by ncm
Parent article: Debian x86_64 port ready

It uses gcc 3.3.4 as someone already stated. We have considered switching
over to gcc 3.4 once it is available in Debian Sid. Currently the
libraries are located in lib with a symlink from lib64 to lib due to the
fact that changing the path would require modifications to all library
packages in Debian, which is not really feasible at the current time.
After the Debian Sarge release there are plans to switch Debian over to
something called multiarch which will involve having library directories
laid out like:

/lib/i486-linux
/lib/x86_64-linux
/usr/include/i486-linux
/usr/include/x86_64-linux
/usr/lib/i486-linux
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux

This is so that multiple archs can be supported generically on all
platforms, such as i386/x86-64, i386/ia64, mips (3 different arch types),
powerpc/powerpc64, sparc/sparc64, etc. However, implementing this will
take a long time since there several thousand library packages in Debian
currently.

Chris Cheney