[csw-maintainers] Fwd: [csw-users] Warning: Latest Clamav does not work on old Sparcs

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Phil,

Am 22.01.2009 um 20:11 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:01:24PM +0100, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>>
>> This could be very well the standardized
>>   /opt/csw/mysql5/libexec/sparcv8/mysqld
>>   /opt/csw/mysql5/libexec/sparcv8plus/mysqld
>>   /opt/csw/mysql5/libexec/sparcv9/mysqld
>>
>
> Please note that the usual standard is based upon the concept of  
> having
> [..]/bin/isaexec
>
> which will then automatically use the "most advanced" version of the  
> binary
> supported on the system, based on those subdirs.
> This will automatically prefer 64-bit binaries, if they can run, I  
> believe.
>
> This is NOT the desired default behaviour for mysql, however.

This is the standard for isaexec, yes. If no isaexec is used the  
standard
is to have sparcv8 in bin/ and the 64 bit in sparcv9/ or amd64/.
IIRC there is currently no standard for isaexec which lets you choose
manually between 32 and 64 bit. It may look like
   bin/              32 bit isaexec
   bin/sparcv8/      32 bit v8 binary
   bin/sparcv8plus/  32 bit v8+ binary
   bin/64            64 bit isaexec
   bin/64/sparcv9/   64 bit v9
   bin/64/sparcv9b   64 bit v9b
etc.

Thoughts?


Best regards

   -- Dago