[linux-audio-user] AMD64 with Linux audio applications?

[Noah Roberts]

> > I also considered going to 64 bit. What flavor of linux are you using? I
> > know you can't run 32 bit and 64 bit applications on the same machine.
> > That is unless you have both the 32 bit and 64 bit libc installed. That
> > seems confusing as if you are just asking for trouble.
> 
> Not really.  You usually solve this issue by either creating a 64-bit
> chroot in a 32-bit base system or a 32-bit chroot in a 64-bit base
> system.  These chroots can be very useful since some apps just don't
> work in 64-bit mode yet.  We are using this method at work to make
> 32-bit commercial apps run on our 64-bit x84_64 machines, and it
> works very well.  I wouldn't call it confusing.  Its actually very logical
> as soon as you start to grasp the chroot concept.

Minor correction:

You can't run 64 bit executables in a 32 bit environment.  The kernel
must be running in 64 bit mode.