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Old May 13th 04, 05:31 PM
Ian Hastie
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On Wed, 12 May 2004 18:26:55 -0400, General Schvantzkoph wrote:

It's not a 32 bit vs 64 bit issue. The real problem is likely to be with
the libraries that the binary applications require. For example I use a
number of binary applications, Cadence's NCsim and Xilinx's tool suite. On
Mandrake 10 (32 bit version on a standard Xeon or PIII) I can't run the
GUI tools in Xilinx's suite but I can run everything in the Cadence tool
set. The issue has to do with some library that changed between between
Mandrake 9.2 and 10, Xilinx relies on it, Cadence doesn't. In theory there
should be no problem running both 32 and 64 bit binaries on a 64 bit OS
but you won't know for your applications unless you try them.


So Xilinx relies on a 32bit library that AMD64 Mandrake 10 doesn't have.
Get a binary image of the old lib and install it. Better yet get the
source for the older version and compile a 32bit image and it should work.
Try doing that with most MS Windows programmes. This is the real
advantage of open source, you're not tied to the whims of a third party.

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Ian.

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