Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:29:38 +0200 | From | Antonio Vargas <> | Subject | Re: fat / multi arch binaries? |
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On 9/28/05, Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de> wrote: > Hi, > > does linux support binaries with code > for several architectures? I read that > elf allowes that, and for example > apple plans to use it on mac os X, > but I couldn't find anything whether > such binaries would work with linux > or not. can you tell me?
OSX begat from NeXT and NeXT had these same "fat binaries". They are not new :)
> if linux supports that, it should > also work for merging x86 and x86_64 > into one binary? would ther be a way
you don't want that ;)
> to run the 32bit version in the 64bit > kernel, if requested? are there any
32bit user-space can run 100% on 64bit kernel, this is usual in sparc if i'm not mistaken
> tools to create such binaries? > > with google I found info from 97 > that indicades elf format has no > provision for fat binaries and linux > doesn't support them. is that still > true?
just remember that linux is mainly about source access, so having "fat" binaries is just wrong because the one-true-way is to get the sources and compile for your arch directly. this can be done by hand, semi-automated (aka gentoo) or automated (aka debian, fedora, etc...) by just installing from precompiled binaries
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