On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:05:48PM +0200, Sythos wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:26:07PM +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote: > > > If I install amd64 port can I execute old i386 apps? > > Yes. See the AMD64 FAQ/HOWTO on the ports page for more info. > > The chroot is the only solution or in a little future there is a > pissibility to run i386 apps in general enviroment?
You can run i386 stuff. E.g. readseq is broken on amd64 (pure64 gcc 3.4), so I copied /usr/bin/readseq from i386 Debian on another machine to /usr/local/bin. I had to put the libraries from libncbi6 in /usr/lib/i486-linux, since there doesn't seem to be a place in /usr/local for ia32 libs. :( Programs that only use libc and libm will work with libc6-i386 (you need that for /lib/ld-linux.so.2, too). Statically linked programs are of course fine. BTW, is there a way to use different ld.so.conf setups for ia32 and amd64? ldconfig has an option to use a different cache. I guess I'd have to binary edit or recompile ld.so to use the alternate cache. (or is there an env var?) (Too bad my new favourite hex editor hte isn't available on AMD64 :( -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , des.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC
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