On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 14:09, Kevin B.Hendricks wrote: > For example the OpenOffice.org tree is not 64bit clean > (or even close) and will probably take a lot of work to > reach that point. On x86_64 they simply use the 386 rpm.
This won't work for long. OpenOffice is one of those apps that needs a 64-bit address space. :-) I'm only half kidding. It takes what, 512 MB already? That's only a factor of 4 away from the ppc limit. Because of the way address space gets fragmented, the limit may even be closer. > I am sure there are other large peices of code that are > not 64 bit clean as well. So it would be nice to run 32 bit > Linux PPC OOo version until the tree actually gets cleaned > up and the uno-bridge code is written to deal with 64 bit vs > 32 bit abi differences. That's gross, but OK, as long as I can uninstall the 32-bit compatibility crud. 16-bit (Minix, ELKS, Coherent, OpenServer...) binaries are smaller than 32-bit i386 ones, but you don't see any frankenstein Linux installs depending on 16-bit crud.
