Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 20:30:17 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Paul Allen <nospam@ugcs.caltech.edu> Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>, stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cc can't build 32-bit executables on amd64 Message-ID: <4456C439.1070500@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20060501212539.GA24193@regurgitate.ugcs.caltech.edu> References: <200605011604.26507.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20060501212539.GA24193@regurgitate.ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Paul Allen wrote: > This was originally mentioned in amd64/76224 which was closed by obrien with the > terse remark: "We don't yet support building 32-bit apps on a 64-bit system. We > only barely support *running* them at this point." > > Really this deserves an errata mention at the very least. It just simply > isn't intuitive that this functionality would be missing from a tier-1 release. > > Paul Sorry, I'm not going to allow the toolchain to get hacked up the week before the release. If this is a feature that you want for FreeBSD 6.2, then please work with the architects of the FreeBSD/amd64 platform to make it happen. Saying at the very very last minute before a release that a pet feature is a requirement for tier-1 only falls on deaf ears. Scott
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