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Date:      Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:32:44 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: i386 & amd64
Message-ID:  <20041210213244.GA69440@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <41B9F6E5.2060707@mukappabeta.de>
References:  <20041209220537.GD21004@math.jussieu.fr> <20041209231543.M24812@wcborstel.nl> <41B9F6E5.2060707@mukappabeta.de>

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On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:20:05PM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> Jorn Argelo wrote:
>=20
> >Well, some things that are keeping me from the AMD64 version of FreeBSD =
is=20
> >the lack of support for several programs. Including cvsup, and I don't=
=20
> >know any other way to sync the ports-tree or the kernel sources. But tha=
t=20
> >was with 5.2.
> >1. I am not sure if FreeBSD still lacks cvsup.
>=20
> That begs the question: can't one run i386 executables on amd64?  I=20
> assumed that was not a problem?

You can, but it requires 32-bit versions of the libraries and dynamic
linker if you want to run a dynamically-linked binary.  There's better
support for this in 6.0, I think - I don't know if this has been
merged yet.

Kris

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