Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
As it turns out, we hired a new developer who unknowingly installed the 64-bit openSUSE. I thought: here will be our 64-bit Guinea pig. We discovered that an important proprietary library for which we have the source (from SICK AG) has oodles of 32-bit assumptions. It is the most convoluted C++ code I have had the displeasure to meet. Do we want to try to rewrite their code? Naahh. And they did not really like supporting Linux in the first place. I think the code they provided us was really ported to Qnx by a different customer. We found that it seems to work on Linux. I realize that we need to resolve this issue. But it is not an easy one.
As long as it's user space you can run such legacy 32bit code on an otherwise 64bit system just fine. That's what the *-32bit packages are for. So for this use case there is no need for an i586 installation medium. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Jennifer Guild, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5; 90409 Nürnberg; Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org