Am 19.11.2012 15:36, schrieb Ben Hutchings:
We may have got different opionions about it, okay.
The problem is not building fglrx on this combination (easy patchable),
but that it is working (from the closed source part of fglrx).
Since AMD also do not want to support it in any way it is the best to
not commit any patch that it is buildable on amd64/i386 mix, since users
just would get an non-working system.
So they don't support running proprietary 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit
distribution? I bet they do.
You understand me wrong. They do not support a running 64bit Linux with
32bit userland (Xorg, glx, dri, foo, bar, etc).
The difference here is that the package manager considers i386 to be the
primary, rather than secondary, userland architecture. But for any
individual piece of software this is irrelevant; it's only important
that the right libraries are installed.
No that isn't as easy as multiarch.
But if you think it is I welcome patches. But please also test them on a
physical PC, since patching fglrx so that it builds fine on this
combination is easy, running it *will not* work and AMD *will never*
support this combination (like myself).
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