[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS and i386 hardware

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, Даниил Ландау wrote:

> I’m experimenting with OmniOS a lot and decided to create my own 
> publisher with some packages including Samba. I had an idea to 
> create packages including two platform builds with "isaexec switch" 
> for binaries as all OmniOS packages. But 32-bit build has the 
> meaning only if somebody could run OmniOS on 32-bit hardware.

Disregarding the intent of this email, I disagree that 32-bit builds 
have meaning only for 32-bit hardware.

Solaris has traditionally mostly offered 32-bit applications and 
libraries.  Packaged (or already-built) software may be 32-bits.  Due 
to dependencies, it may be necessary to have 32-bit libraries 
installed in order to run 32-bit applications, and these typically 
come with 32-bit programs as well.

Getting back on topic, Python does not seem to support multiple 
architectures in one install.  However, the python binary itself seems 
to use the "isaexec switch" so the problem is likely that the 32-bit 
version is not built properly against all of the packages which are 
needed.

Bob
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