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Re: [PATCH] setup: port to 64-bit, part 1
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 10:46:38AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Mar 3 00:46, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> This patch fixes the remaining issues, *except in autoload.c*, for a
>> 64bit setup.exe. Some notes:
>>
>> 1) This assumes that 64bit .ini will be named setup64.ini.
>>
>> 2) This also assumes that 64bit setup will only install 64bit packages
>> (IOW only use setup64.ini, regardless of argv[0])
>>
>> 3) The resulting binary is still named setup.exe, but we'll want to
>> provide this for download as e.g. setup64.exe. It would be up to
>> whomever (cgf?) to rename this upon uploading. Alternatively, the
>> buildsystem could be patched to change the executable name based on
>> $host_cpu.
>
>It would be helpful if the build system would already care for that.
Why are we porting setup.exe to 64-bit? It doesn't seem like there are
any benefits. There is no reason to have two versions that I can see,
although we will likely want to modify the current setup to choose
between the two.
I'd rather just have one setup.exe which gave you the choice to install
either (or both) distros at install time than to have to clutter the
web site with "If you're installing 64-bit click here, if you're installing
32-bit click here".
We could, of course, add code to make sure that someone isn't installing
the 64-bit code on a 32-bit system.
cgf