On 10/20/2010 06:06 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > (Actually, bi-arch support wouldn’t make much sense under Nix’s view of
> > the world.)
>
> Why not? What doesn't make sense is the /lib and /lib64 distinction,
> but you could certainly have a nix flag that says which arch to build
> for.
Oh yes, that’s something Nix(OS) supports: one can build for
i686-linux-gnu on x86_64-linux-gnu. But it’s different from what’s
commonly referred to as “multilib support”.
So I don't understand what you meant by "bi-arch" support.
More precisely, what may not make sense in Nix is the /lib and /lib64
distinction _in the store_. But in an installed system, you could have
/lib and /lib64 paths (or /lib and /lib32) for the user's consumption,
just like in every other distribution.
Paolo
