Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751263AbVI2ADU (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:03:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751264AbVI2ADU (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:03:20 -0400 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:24974 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751263AbVI2ADU (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:03:20 -0400 Subject: Re: fat / multi arch binaries? From: Alan Cox To: Andreas Jellinghaus Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200509281918.56386.aj@dungeon.inka.de> References: <200509281918.56386.aj@dungeon.inka.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:30:33 +0100 Message-Id: <1127953833.29682.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 599 Lines: 17 > but I couldn't find anything whether > such binaries would work with linux > or not. can you tell me? Linux doesn't. Instead there are a set of policies allowing parallel library installations which although far from perfect do work. If you want to put both architectures in one package then a simple script to front it will do what is needed. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/