amd64/82178: missing 32bit subsystem

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 14 13:39:26 GMT 2005


On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:19:14AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:26:26AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:24:23PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:22:28AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > > > On Monday 13 June 2005 12:13 am, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 07:12:58PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > > > > There is a known issue that there are some missing bits in the 5.4
> > > > > > src/release/Makefile such that the 'base' tarball doesn't contain
> > > > > > the 32-bit ld.so and 32-bit shared libs.
> > > > >
> > > > > This should be fixed in Makefile.inc1, not in release/Makefile.
> > > > 
> > > > That looks a step in the right direction, but I wonder if we can have 
> > > > this stuff in a seperate sysinstall-selectable distribution instead of 
> > > > the base dist?
> > > 
> > > Agreed, it would be nice to have more granularity in our install bits.
> > >  
> > OK, I will do it (modulo the sysinstall part).
> 
> I can do that part if you like.  Just send the patch that will create the
> 32compat/ directory and splited 32compat.XY files.
> 
> Is 32compat or 32bit a suitable name, or do we want a different one?
> "compat32" may be confused with FreeBSD-3.2 compatibility libs.
>  
I've choosen a more natural "lib32".  You should have the patch in your
mailbox now.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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