[M3devel] multiarch

[Jay]

The Python thing as I understand it, is that sometimes package foo depends on package bar, and they must be of the same architecture, and sometimes not. Specifically inproc "plugins" require matching architecture, but if I just run an executable, architecture doesn't usually have to match.

 

OpenBSD sets an interesting counterexample -- no biarch/multiarch, just one architecture, "same as it ever was", "no additional complexity", "everything is built from source anyway".

 

 - Jay

 
> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:15:09 -0400
> From: hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] multiarch
> 
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 07:12:54PM -0400, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> >
> > The stimulus for this work seems to be having 32-bit and 64-bit programs 
> > coexist on the same AMD-64 system. But it also deals with questions 
> > like MIPS systems having at least three different ABIs.
> 
> They're also considering interpreters like Python to be architectures to 
> be supported.
> 
> -- hendrik
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