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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

Multilib support would be needed.  Patches have been made and proposed 
by benoit.  Unless the sorcery team has some copious free time to test 
them and the current team leaders feel that we have the resources to 
support a multilib system (which they don't think), they won't be going 
into main sorcery any time soon.  There's a proj2 branch for sorcery for 
benoit to work on it though since he pretty much won't listen to the 
current team leaders' priorities to work on stabilizing pure 
architectures first.

There's already been stated opposition to multilib implementation as too 
much of a burden for all the gurus to manage.  If you feel differently, 
this is the discussion list and anybody is free to express themselves. :)

Personally, what I did to convert was to build/install to a chroot for 
64-bit libraries.  That seems to work well for me.  If you have enough 
space for 32-bit libraries and binaries, you have enough room for a 
chroot with the same files on your system.  Alternatively, following 
Sergey's instructions and using the current test iso works, but you have 
to follow Sergey's advice for it to work flawlessly. :)

Seth

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:29:29PM -0600, Bearcat M. Sandor wrote:
> Could such a variable system be used to provide those of us with amd 64
> bit systems a gradual upgrade path to an all 64-bit system?
> 
> Bearcat (who is putting together his amd 64 3000 system)
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > this is a warning to all users of the devel grimoire.
> > GCC 4.0.0 has been released and I'm working on updating it in devel.
> > There are again several breakages caused by the gcc update, so this
> > won't go to test too soon.
> > I'll create a gcc34 spell that installs to /opt/gcc34 similar to gcc2
> > and gcc33. Then I'll update the split gcc/g++/... spells to 4.0.0.
> > If you don't plan to help testing gcc 4 and are using the devel grimoire
> > you should put those split spells on hold.
> >
> > Another thing I'll add is a grimoire function to switch to a different
> > gcc version for the current spell that does what USEGCC2 currently does,
> > but for _any_ version.
> >
> > Attached is a script i've been using for some time to switch the gcc
> > version used in the current shell. I've been using it with my local
> > gcc40 spell to test some stuff with gcc 4.0 pre-releases, and it works
> > fine.
> > Basic usage is:
> > gcc-env $VERSION
> > cast <spell>
> >
> > $VERSION has to be the compressed form of the version that is used as
> > postfix for the install location, i.e. 33 for gcc 3.3.x as the gcc33
> > spell installs to /opt/gcc33.
> >
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