32-bit libs required for 64-bit install

[Simon Marlow]

On 25/08/13 13:48, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
> I had trouble installing the generic 64-bit Linux tarball for 7.6.3.
> With some help from Ian, who pointed out that the problem was
> related to ld-linux.so, I finally figured out the root of the problem:
> the installation requires *both* the 64-bit and 32-bit
> versions of libc6 plus deps to be available.
>
> Once the installation was complete, I could then remove the
> 32-bit libs and ghc still seems to work. It appears that the
> 32-bit libs are only required for some of the auxiliary executables
> that come with the tarball, such as ghc-pwd.
>
> Is there any reason in principle that we only allow 64-bit GHC
> to be installed on multiarch Linux? That seems like a rather
> arbitrary restriction.

It's certainly a bug.  Do you know which executable is 32-bit?

Cheers,
	Simon