Hello Sean,

On 29 Apr 15 01:20, Sean Dennis wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> Is your 64-bit machine using any 32-bit libraries whatsoever? If
 NB>> not, enabling 'multilib' for your specific distribution should
 NB>> help out with that.

 SD> Yep, it is, but Slackware multilib isn't officially supported and
 SD> unless I specifically build a program on my own box, it generally
 SD> won't work.  There's a few programs that do -- WINE comes to mind --
 SD> but statically linked programs don't always work.

How far behind the times is Slackware these days? See below..

 SD> Oh, I'm not worried about it really.  I prefer Qodem myself since I
 SD> can hack at the source code to work on things I want to.  I was just
 SD> noting that he should mention that it's 32-bit because there are
 SD> people who run purely 64-bit (and when I rebuild this box, that is
 SD> what I'll be doing; the multilib stuff is a real kludge).

I'm not exactly sure how you consider it a kludge. I also have a Windows 8
machine here that can run both 32bit and 64bit programs. It's basically the
same thing, allowing you to do similar on a Linux machine.

Not sure how Slackware does it, but on Gentoo it's a simple USE flag when
building your system, which provides 32bit libs enabling you to install/use
32bit programs. On Archlinux (my current testing ground), Debian, Ubuntu,
and whatever else that uses "repositories" it's as simple as
enabling the "multilib" repo.

So I'm a little confused as to how it's anything close to a 'kludge' or
even somewhat difficult for that matter. Then again, I don't know Slackware
(nor do I care to) or how they handle things. *shrug*

Regards,
Nick

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