On Dec 5, 2008, at 6:56 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
Last time this was discussed, the general view seemed to be that pure64 was a step far enough. Care to remind me what the advantages of multilib builds are ? I'm looking at the "whole system" here, most of which is in BLFS (or, for existing multilib users, cblfs).
I don't know if anyone else cares, but I need to run some binary-only commercial distributions on my system (specifically the DB/C database system) that aren't available in 64-bit versions, so it would be handy for me. But I don't claim that represents a common case for LFS users.
Plus it lets you build grub, which is otherwise complicated (or in my experience, impossible) on pure64 systems.
Zach
/ Currently running pure64 with a pure32 chroot for DB/C and grub
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