[CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?

Wed Dec 28 16:48:32 UTC 2011
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Michael Lampe
<lampe at gcsc.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
>
>> Biarch is actually only needed for libraries and support packages.
>> Running native i386 application on x86_64 does not make much sense
>> (third-party apps are another thing).
>
> I also like the option to compile, run, test, debug, etc. my own
> programs as 32 bit. That's why starting with 5.x there's not only the
> libs, but also the devel-packages.
>
> Biarch is at least to me a valuable feature. Anyway it's all there, just
> not in the ISOs it seems.

Why not use a virtual machine for that and have a cleaner separation
of the architectures?

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  Les Mikesell
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