On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Michael Hope <michael.h...@linaro.org> wrote: > Hi there. I have a style question. For the pre-built versions of > gcc-linaro, should we release a i686 version that also runs on x86_64, > or do separate i686 and x86_64 builds? > > If we do just an i686 version then: > * There's less to test > * There's one 'linux' binary so less confusion on what to download > and a simpler download page > * Most end users will already have the 32 bit libraries due to Skype or Flash > > but it has some downsides: > * May not work 'out of the box' > * Cryptic failures if you don't have the 32 bit libraries installed
Can we improve error reporting for those? Or maybe shipping a check-install script that probes for proper 32-bit libs? > * Some users can't install extra packages and may not be allowed the > 32 bit libraries What libs are potentially missing? How many of those could get linked in statically? -- Alexander Sack Technical Director, Linaro Platform Teams http://www.linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
