On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:47:37 +0800, Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For whatever it's worth, Debian still works on architectures < i686. I > haven't actually tested with any 386s, since I don't have any, but now > for a fact that even Sid (Debian's "unstable" branch) will work, albeit > slowly as expected, on a 486.
That's great. I don't think Red Hat expected any of their enterprises still on a i586 or lower, so ... :) Just grabbed the source RPM, which has: %define auxarches i586 i686 athlon sparcv9 alphaev6 %define prelinkarches noarch %define nptlarches i686 athlon x86_64 ia64 s390 s390x sparcv9 ppc ppc64 %define rtkaioarches i686 athlon x86_64 ia64 s390 s390x ppc ppc64 %define withtlsarches i686 athlon x86_64 ia64 s390 s390x alpha alphaev6 sparc sparcv9 ppc ppc64 So is it an 'upstream' (GNU Project) decision to drop i586? I won't bother attemping to build this... NPTL must have asm code, so even if it compiles, it'll bomb at runtime. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
