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[Russell]

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At 11:23 AM 8/21/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>It just depends on what you are running. If mplayer doesn't link against any
>external libraries, then it's portable between 32-bit and 64-bit installs. The
>real problem with running 64bit/32bit side-by-side is the libraries that apps
>depend on. Debian doesn't have a standard location like 'lib64' or 'lib32' to
>separate the 64-bit and 32-bit compiled libraries. 32-bit Firefox can't use
>64-bit GTK+ libraries, for example. This is where the chroot comes in. With
>the chroot, you can have the 32bit libraries installed in the default
>locations ( which would overwrite the 64bit libraries otherwise) and the 32bit
>programs look for them there. So you just have your 32-bit chroot pointed to a
>32-bit repository and it should install all the 32-bit libraries into the
>appropriate locations in the chroot.
>
>IIRC, other distros just have a 'lib64' for 64-bit libraries or a 'lib32' for
>the 32-bit libraries and all of their packages are compiled with this in mind
>for linking.
>
>- Brandon Sandrowicz
>
>On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 10:00:09AM -0400, ted leslie wrote:
>> for sled10 x64
>> it comes out of the box with flash and mp3
>> i copied a 32bit mplayer, and dll's to the 64bit machine
>> ran the 32bit mplayer, and it got an error on 2 lib's that i brought
>> over from a 32bit suse install,
>> and that was that, no chroot, etc, just a fully working suse sled10,
>> with a 32 bit mplayer (its dll's) and a could of 32bit libs.
>> 
>> -tl
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 15:12 +0100, Jamon Camisso wrote:
>> > Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> > > Yeah it takes like 10 or 15 minutes to do following the howto.  There
>> > > are a few tricks for a few programs to deal with, but for most things it
>> > > works fine.
>> > > 
>> > > I actually run 32bit debian on an amd64, with a 64bit kernel, and then
>> > > 64bit debian in a chroot.
>> > 
>> > So how do you have that working? You install a 32bit version and then 
>> > simply compile and/or copy your 64bit kernel and associated /lib/kernel 
>> > folder to your 32bit install? I'm interested as I do find that even 
>> > using dchroot and various other methods of running 32bit programs on 
>> > 64bit kernels, there are some quirky little things, like missing gtk 
>> > libraries etc. for, say Firefox, that I don't want to have to track down 
>> > and install...
>> > 
>> > Jamon
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