On 05/01/17 16:03, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
For many years, Fedora has supported multilib by carrying
parallel-installable
libraries in /usr/lib[64]. This was necessary for a very long time in order to
support 32-bit applications running on a 64-bit deployment. However, in today's
new container world, there is a whole new option.
You may be living in a "new container world" but that doesn't mean the
rest of us (or our users) are.
I'd like to propose that we consider moving away from our
traditional approach
to multilib in favor of recommending the use of a 32-bit container runtime when
needed on a 64-bit host.
On the face of it it sounds like a terrible idea but perhaps I have
misunderstood the consequences.
Can you explain what this would actually mean for an average software
developer trying to build a 32 bit program?
Take for example my day job where I'm developing a proprietary
application on a Fedora workstation. Now mostly I use a 64 bit build of
the software but we have a few databases we support where the vendor
doesn't provide 64 bit libraries so I have to use a 32 bit build.
Would this mean I had to do some special dance to enter a container
environment in order to work with a 32 bit build rather than just
telling our build scripts to use "gcc -m32" when compiling?
Tom
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