From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,eeee56c19a542f8d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Multi-arch References: <1147857777.703653.268610@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1147857777.703653.268610@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 21:24:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.250.108.49 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1147987484 83.250.108.49 (Thu, 18 May 2006 23:24:44 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 23:24:44 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4299 Date: 2006-05-18T21:24:44+00:00 List-Id: I understand how multi-arch is useful if you want to use proprietary binaries that are available only for certain architectures. Otherwise I don't see a reason to do it. I'd think free code would just be compiled for the "native" architecture. Is multi-arch useful in an altogether free system in some way that eludes me? -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu