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Re: [suse-amd64]
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 08:12:45 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <m3zn2wux6s.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> [...]
> The only problem with 9.1, some apps won't build, the specific problem
> is that it looks in 64-bit libraries for shared and in 32-bit for static
> libs, hope that's fixed in 9.2.
That's a bug in the apps, there's nothing we can do about this. Feel
free to share a simple example here on the list and let's discuss
that.
> Drivers such as slmodem that contain a 32-bit proprietary module will
> not build with a 64-bit kernel, 32-bit plugins for mozilla will not work
> with the 64-bit mozilla, but are fine with 32-bit firefox.
64-bit konqueror does handle 32-bit plugins since it uses a different
mechanism for plugins. And you could install a 32-bit mozilla...
Andreas
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Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj
SUSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
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> [...]
> The only problem with 9.1, some apps won't build, the specific problem
> is that it looks in 64-bit libraries for shared and in 32-bit for static
> libs, hope that's fixed in 9.2.
That's a bug in the apps, there's nothing we can do about this. Feel
free to share a simple example here on the list and let's discuss
that.
> Drivers such as slmodem that contain a 32-bit proprietary module will
> not build with a 64-bit kernel, 32-bit plugins for mozilla will not work
> with the 64-bit mozilla, but are fine with 32-bit firefox.
64-bit konqueror does handle 32-bit plugins since it uses a different
mechanism for plugins. And you could install a 32-bit mozilla...
Andreas
--
Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj
SUSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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