[ATrpms-users] Re: mplayer win32codecs or firefox flash plugin on x86_64?

[Tako Schotanus]

Marcel Janssen wrote:

>On Monday 14 November 2005 16:00, Tako Schotanus wrote:
>  
>
>>So to start the 32 bits
>>version you either have to start the actual firefox-bin (losing some of
>>the features handled by the script) or uninstall the 64 bit version.
>>This is not such a big problem, I just wondered if there might be
>>_other_ packages that don't handle being installed together that well?
>>Should I report cases like that if I encounter them? Or is the general
>>consensus that you shouldn't try to run 32 bit apps on a 64 bit system?
>>    
>>
>
>I think it's supposed to start the 64bit by default  and when you specify in 
>the following way, it should start the 32bit version.
>
>$linux32 firefox
> 
>Regards,
>Marcel
>  
>
I tried, it doesn't :-)

The code is actually very simple (you can see for yourself if you have 
firefox, /usr/bin/firefox):

MOZ_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib"
if [ -x "/usr/lib64/firefox-1.0.7/firefox-bin" ]
then
  MOZ_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib64"
fi
MOZ_DIST_BIN="$MOZ_LIB_DIR/firefox-1.0.7"
MOZ_PROGRAM="$MOZ_DIST_BIN/firefox"

So if the 64 bit version _exists_ it will be used.

Cheers,
 -Tako