On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
For Firefox (32bit) from fedora.us I needed no special libs from iX86 on x86_64.
You'd be mistaken. It will need a whole bunch of i.86 libs: glibc, various X related libraries, freetype, various GTK related libs, libstdc++.
These ix86 RPMs come on the CDs admittedly (or are, strangely, located in the x86_64 arch RPM directory on fedora.us), and are installed by default but they're still i.86. The problem is that many many of these RPMs contain non-arch-specific files. Maybe yum uses --nodoc and --prefix when installing them, but i doubt it. The real problem though is where you need or want to install both i386 and x86_64 versions of an RPM or library RPMs that install binaries to (/usr)?/bin.
Yes, often, this is annoying. QT had such a problem also IIRC. Was hard to get a 32bit xine run on an 64bit FC2 (now there are 64bit xine available at livna.org this is easier again)... But I don't think /usr/ bin64 or something like that is specified somewhere (LSB)? Maybe this could be solved by /usr/bin/qtconfig-32 /usr/bin/qtconfig-64 and a script or link that points to the right Version?
bin64 is the only sane way really.
CU thl
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