Another distro with 64-bit Wine by default

Marcus Meissner marcus at jet.franken.de
Sat Mar 6 03:08:19 CST 2010


On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 05:56:58PM -0700, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> On 03/05/2010 02:34 PM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:11:59PM +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 08:17:15AM -0700, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> >>> It seems that another distro, SuSE 11.x, has Wine-64 compiled by default for
> >>> x86_64 platforms. That explains all the issues people been having on SuSE
> >>> lately.
> >>>
> >>> Marcus, could you please create a separate package wine-64 instead and build
> >>> 32-bit Wine by default for x86_64 arch instead?
> >>
> >> No, we do not build it by default as 64bit, if so it is a mistake.
> >>
> >> I am still waiting for the merged wine/wine32 stuff ;)
> > 
> > Just second guessing where you or the user got this ... he used the development
> > Emulators:Wine repo with the openSUSE_Factory development distro.
> Not sure if it is factory or not:
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_11.0/

While there is a x86-64 subdirectory, there are only -32bit packages in it.

If people install "wine" or "wine-snapshot" it will take the correct one.

Ciao, Marcus



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