On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Nick Phillips wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 09:20:33AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > Another question, of course, is what does supporting 386s lose us? I've > > Binary compatibility with other distributions & usability of 3rd-party > C++ binaries. That was what started this thread, remember?
I should have been more specific in what I was referring to. The subthread I was replying in was more about a 386 distro in general, and trying to subdue those who would take my message as support for pushing pbuilder-esque sub-architectures into Debian. Perhaps a subject change or similar would have been useful. For the original problem, it surely should be possible to build 386 and 486+ versions of libstdc++ and include both in the distro, with linker magic (or installer magic) to tell the difference? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16