[CMake] Provide 64bit Linux binaries

[Andreas Pakulat]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 01:56:22PM +0100, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know this has been raised in the past, but I don't think the
> > arguments for not providing the binaries are strong enough to
> > warrant the hassle a cmake user has to go through to run the 32bit
> > binaries on a 64bit Linux distribution.
> >
> > I think requiring users to figure out how to install 32bit compat
> > libraries and keeping a copy of at least libc on the machine for no
> > other purpose than running cmake does not really fit the intention
> > of providing binaries in the first place. As far as I understand the
> > idea was to make it easier for people who cannot upgrade a
> > package-manager-provided CMake (for whatever reason) to use a newer
> > CMake. Requiring those people to build from source does not really
> > make it easy and not all distributions install 32bit compat
> > libraries out of the box (let alone older machines which have no
> > such compat libs at all)
> >
> > So can we please get 64bit Linux binaries for the next CMake
> > release?
>
> What 64-bit Linux distribution, that doesn't package CMake, do you
> use?
>

I did not say there is no CMake package, the point I'm trying to make is
that if someone wants or needs a newer CMake release than his Distro
provides this is not as easy as it should be for a 64Bit Linux system (that
does not yet have 32bit compat libs installed).

Andreas
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