32-bit Firefox (Re: How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have towait?)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:10:27AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Matt Zimmerman 
> 
> | The latter would be preferable, as it avoids duplicating the source and
> | automatically stays up to date as the package changes.  The bi-arch support
> | in our compiler should make it possible to build both 64-bit and 32-bit
> | binaries during the same build, if the necessary development packages are
> | arranged.
> 
> This is the big problem -- firefox build-depends on a bunch of
> libraries like libxt-dev and libx11-dev which would require those to
> exist in a 32-bit build for amd64.  Similarly, we would need a build
> of gtk, orbit, freetype, cairo.  At some point, you're really running
> half your desktop in 32 bit mode.  To be honest -- I don't see the
> point, it's not worth the maintenance for the distro team and I would
> rather see the effort being used for proper multiarch.

Aren't most of those libraries available as 32-bit for openoffice?

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 - mdz