 | | | IBM x236 - EM64T SMP Kernel Crash | IBM x236 - EM64T SMP Kernel Crash 2005-05-19 - By Arjan van de Ven
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On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:33 +0200, G?ran Uddeborg wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven writes:
> > What you can't do is
> > pick parts of the 64 bit distro and use it on the 32 bit distribution
> > though...
>
> Would it carry too far to elaborate on this? What kind of problems
> would that give?
>
> In order to build 32 bit applications on 64 bit machines, we have been
> installing several packages from the 32 bit distribution on our 64 bit
> machines. Mostly, but not only, -devel packages.
you're doing it the other way around; that is a lot better.
But using 64 bit stuff on a 32 bit distro is just one gigantic
nightmare. Using selected 32 bit things on a 64 bit distro is much nicer
and often works (and we ship quite a bit of 32 bit stuff ourselves for
those)
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