From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 22 08:39:29 2003 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 9D8C516A4B3 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083BE43F75 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:39:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22C02A7EA; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:39:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Adriaan de Groot In-Reply-To: <200310221015.37534.adridg@cs.kun.nl> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:39:26 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20031022153926.E22C02A7EA@canning.wemm.org> cc: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FYI, I've switched my primary desktop to AMD64. 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: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:39:29 -0000 Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:57, you wrote: > > Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > > On Friday 17 October 2003 19:17, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > I finally worked up the nerve to commit to eating my own dogfood. :-) > > > > a seperate drive, I can use boot0 to temporarily boot the old drive > > and do things like buildworld and get ktraces of identical binaries > > in action on a 32 bit system etc. > > Will a regular old 32-bit install of FBSD even boot? I have loads of drives > kicking around with 4-STABLE installs of varying antiquity that would help > get me started a lot faster. Yes. It is a PC. With releng_4 and DDR400 ram, you can look forward to 12-13 minute buildworlds. > > > My intention - KDE-FreeBSD core team - is to get KDE in its entirety > > > working as well on amd64 as on x86. > > > > I ran into trouble with kde3base - it wants to link something like > > libxkbfile.a into a shared library. This is fatal on amd64, but it > > seems you can get away with it on i386. > > Well then that's one of the things I'll just have to fix, then. I've also bee n > struggling with things like #define unsigned int __u32; (a Linuxism) -- > what's the default int size on FBSD-amd64? (I realize I could assemble the > system, boot the 5.1 snapshot from David, and find out for myself, but that > may take quite some time). int is 32 bit. long is 64 bit. The only reason for the build failure was trying to put a non-pic libfoo.a library inside a .so shared lib. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5