From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 19:11:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B8F516A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:11:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DD3043D2F for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:11:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rob2@pythonemproject.com) Received: from pythonemproject.com (c-67-169-203-186.client.comcast.net[67.169.203.186]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004093019112101600kr9v6e> (Authid: europax); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:11:22 +0000 Message-ID: <415C5ADA.2030007@pythonemproject.com> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:13:30 -0700 From: Rob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm References: <415C3C61.1010705@pythonemproject.com> <200409301144.13174.peter@wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <200409301144.13174.peter@wemm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grub port question X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: rob2@pythonemproject.com List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:11:23 -0000 Peter Wemm wrote: >On Thursday 30 September 2004 10:03 am, Rob wrote: > > >>I was going to try to use grub for booting from my multidisk system, >>as I was told that the bootup process is done in i386, then it is >>transfered to 64 bit mode. So grub works OK. But last nite I tried >>to install grub from ports and got the message immediately >>(paraphrasing) "that I could not compile a 32 bit application on a 64 >>bit OS." >> >>So now I'm really confused LOL. >> >> > >In a nutshell, the toolchain has various flags/switches to control its >operating mode. For example, gcc has -m32 and -m64. The catch is that >we do not install the 32 bit version of the include files yet. And you >have to use tools/lib32/build32.sh to build the 32 bit libraries. The >rest of the toolchain has various mode switches. eg: as --32 etc. gcc >could be slightly tweaked to use the correct include and library paths, >but for now it needs horrible -I and -L switches. > >However, the port problem is that it doesn't know any of these magic >options. I hate to say it, but the easiest thing is probably to just >fetch the i386 package for now. If pkg_add won't do it, then it should >be possible to extract the tarball by hand and do the deed. Not >pretty, I know. > > Thank you Peter for the help and valuable info. Rob