Hi, On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Magnus Therning <mag...@therning.org>wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 01:56:22PM +0100, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I know this has been raised in the past, but I don't think the > > arguments for not providing the binaries are strong enough to > > warrant the hassle a cmake user has to go through to run the 32bit > > binaries on a 64bit Linux distribution. > > > > I think requiring users to figure out how to install 32bit compat > > libraries and keeping a copy of at least libc on the machine for no > > other purpose than running cmake does not really fit the intention > > of providing binaries in the first place. As far as I understand the > > idea was to make it easier for people who cannot upgrade a > > package-manager-provided CMake (for whatever reason) to use a newer > > CMake. Requiring those people to build from source does not really > > make it easy and not all distributions install 32bit compat > > libraries out of the box (let alone older machines which have no > > such compat libs at all) > > > > So can we please get 64bit Linux binaries for the next CMake > > release? > > What 64-bit Linux distribution, that doesn't package CMake, do you > use? > I did not say there is no CMake package, the point I'm trying to make is that if someone wants or needs a newer CMake release than his Distro provides this is not as easy as it should be for a 64Bit Linux system (that does not yet have 32bit compat libs installed). Andreas
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