From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 26 18:01:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D42516A4E2 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:01:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: from mired.org (vpn.mired.org [66.92.153.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D17243D46 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:01:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: (qmail 13836 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Aug 2006 18:00:51 -0000 Received: by bhuda.mired.org (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1001); Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:00:51 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17648.35923.366716.65517@bhuda.mired.org> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:00:51 -0400 To: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 19) "Constant Variable" XEmacs Lucid X-Primary-Address: mwm@mired.org X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.0.3 (Seattle Slew) Cc: Subject: amd64 questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:01:04 -0000 metaquestions: The amd64 ilst might be a better place for this, but it's listed as "for discussion of porting FreeBSD to amd64", and these aren't really questions about porting FreeBSD to amd64. Maybe the list needs to be repurposed? There doesn't appear to be a FAQ (or FAQ section) for platform-specific questions. I found lots of people asking these questions, but no answers My conclusions after groveling around on the web, and a variety of freebsd mail list archives, it seems the state of several things in the amd64 world as of 6.1 is (if any of these are wrong, pointers to or documentations on how to do this would be greatly appreciated): 1) The compiler can build i386 binaries, but the toolchain in general doesn't do the right thing with the -m32 flag. 2) The system can run i386 binaries, but the pkg system doesn't support installing packages from other architectures. 3) openoffice doesn't build on amd64, and the i386 build doesn't run on amd64, so the recommended way to run openoffice on amd64 is to run the Linux build. Thanks, http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.