On 21 January 2016 at 14:25, Dennis Gilmore <den...@ausil.us> wrote: > > However I really think we need to sit down and rethink multilib. I would like > to start by changing the multilib method to runtime. So you only get runtime > libraries and nothing to build 32 bit apps on 64 bit. For 32 bit building you > should just use mock, docker, systemd-nspawn or something else. It would mean > we need to make and ship a i386 docker base image if we say use docker. > > We have dropped most multilib support already. Today s390x has multilib with > s390 and x86_64 multilib with i386.we dropped 32 bit ppc support entirely, we > are working to drop s390 which will leave x86_64 standing all alone. Given > changes in technologies since x86_64 first became a thing I think we sit back > and reevaluate the idea of multilib. Maybe there is better ways to achieve > what we want today
Successfully build and run 20+ year old programs without having to completely rewrite them would be one of the things I want today. In fact it's one of the things I was doing earlier this week. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
