On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 04:26:05 +0200, Alex Turner <armtuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Anyone who has tried x86-64 linux knows what a royal pain in the ass it
is. They didn't do anything sensible, like just make the whole OS 64
bit,
no, they had to split it up, and put 64-bit libs in a new directory
/lib64.
This means that a great many applications don't know to check in there
for
libs, and don't compile pleasantly, php is one among them. I forget what
others, it's been awhile now. Of course if you actualy want to use more
than 4gig RAM in a pleasant way, it's pretty much essential.
Alex.
Decent distros do this for you :
$ ll /usr | grep lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 jan 20 09:55 lib -> lib64
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 1,8K avr 19 16:16 lib32
drwxr-xr-x 92 root root 77K jun 10 15:48 lib64
Also, on gentoo, everything "just works" in 64-bit mode and the packages
compile normally... I don't see a problem...
