What is multilib support?

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Thu Sep 22 22:11:06 UTC 2005


On Thursday 22 September 2005 03:13 pm, Joseph M Dupre (AVAB Inc.) wrote:
> In reference to the buildroot toolchain, what is multilib support,
> and why would I need it (or not)?

support for multiple library formats with one toolchain

for example, the typical amd64 toolchain supports both the 32bit (x86) and 
64bit (x86_64) formats ... or you could have a mips toolchain which supports 
o32, n32, and n64
-mike



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