64bit or not ?

[Tino Schwarze]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 03:27:17PM +0100, Youssef Ghorbal wrote:

> 	As far as you're using distribution packages (deb, rpms and so) for  
> software you are installing on 64bit machines every thing is allright.
> 	But, if you compile your own softs from sources, you are going to  
> regret 64bits systems with their /lib and /lib64 directories. Some  
> libriairies are in the first and others are in the second and you are  
> going to patch your ./configure and your Makefiles... I tried to  
> compile PHP (with almost all extentions) on a RHEL EM64T system and  
> didn't succeeded.

These times should be over and the build systems should have been fixed
by now.

Tino.

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