Fedora Core 4

[Florian La Roche]

> More complete bi-arch support on 64-bit at least AMD64?
> On FC3, at least /usr/include/kde/arts/gsl/gslconfig.h in
> arts-devel (.i386 and .x86_64) conflict, after inspecting both,
> one of the #defines differs, so it's not only a packaging problem.
> But I have seen other headers that include arch dependent stuff
> from /usr/include/asm-i386 or /usr/include/asm-x86_64, respectively.
> 
> Ultimately, I would like to be able to install both <package>-libs
> and <package>-devel as the latter may contain static libs in either 
> /usr/lib or /usr/lib64. Maybe there should be a <package>-headers
> that contains the common stuff between the arch dependent -devel RPM.
> 
> Hm. Anaconda or firstboot support to install all the .i386 versions of
> the above on x86-64 would be nice. I don't mind downloading all the
> 2x N disks for FC4, I installed both versions of FC3 on different
> machines, too.


Can you please check out the posting from Miloslav and start filing
bugzilla requests and maybe also patches to clean up the important
base libraries for this?

	From: Miloslav Trmac <mitr at volny.cz>
	Subject: Differences in headers between i386 and x86_64
	To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
	Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 05:04:12 +0200

greetings,

Florian La Roche