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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--AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBuhX8Wry0BWjoQKURAqKnAKD+8u5GVZaObBVMNPkLVUz6BhsR4gCdEXoY znVJUYPVqZcQ1P+9ggdkw8g= =QkKv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA--
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