Re: [proaudio] fst fail to build on amd64

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Thomas Kuther <gimpel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Di, 27.01.09 13:09 Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Thomas Kuther
>> <gimpel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Di, 27.01.09 12:50 Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Thomas Kuther
>> >> <gimpel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > On Di, 27.01.09 20:32 Dominique Michel
>> >> > <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Hi, I get the following error:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> [snip]
>> >> >
>> >> > FST is soo deprecated. It hasn't been updated it in ages.
>> >> > Check out dssi-vst, it works perfectly fine here.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Quick question - does dssi-vst require multi-lib to run correctly?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Mark
>> >>
>> >
>> > It depends on WINE, so yes, you need a multilib profile.
>> >
>>
>> Thanks. I'm currently multi-lib but was considering dropping it. I
>> guess I cannot do that yet.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mark
>>
>
> It's absolutely not worth it anyway.
>
> Well, you pay some compile time (power bill), and some MB disk space for
> multilib gcc and glibc, but those don't get updated too often.
>
> 5,3M    /lib32
> 181M    /usr/lib32
>
> (full blown 32bit multilib, I can even run Oracle 10g XE 32bit)
> So that additional disk space doesn't really hurt either....
>
> So far I see no real reason not to run multilib on a desktop
> workstation.
>
>
> I like Solaris in that regard: kernel basically is 64bit, but only those
> applications that are made for and really profit from running in 64bit
> are really running 64bit, the rest is 32bit (smaller binaries, less
> memory usage)
>

thanks for the inputs. I'll certainly leave it alone if that's all that's saved.

Cheers,
Mark