From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 21:24:11 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 9436A16A4CF for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:24:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freebee.digiware.nl (dsl439.iae.nl [212.61.63.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24F6C43D41 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:24:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Received: from [212.61.27.71] (dual [212.61.27.71]) by freebee.digiware.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8ULO79S025160; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:24:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Message-ID: <415C7977.5040602@withagen.nl> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:24:07 +0200 From: Willem Jan Withagen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rob2@pythonemproject.com References: <415C3C61.1010705@pythonemproject.com> <200409301144.13174.peter@wemm.org> <415C5ADA.2030007@pythonemproject.com> In-Reply-To: <415C5ADA.2030007@pythonemproject.com> 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 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 21:24:11 -0000 Rob wrote: > 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. >> >> This was probably due to the cryptic information I mailed. I should have mentioned that you need to compile it on the i386 platform, which is also the location where I installed it. This all under the assumption that you would also like to install a FreeBSD-i386, like I did. Sorry for the misinformation. --WjW