From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 16 03:03:30 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC6416A400; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:03:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0642213C447; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:03:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D1041A3C1A; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:02:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [192.168.1.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1802513AE; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:03:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0F955BE98; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:03:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:03:28 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Ivan Voras Message-ID: <20070616030328.GA17075@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <6f50eac40706151829g64b8a8abg798f97449c05888f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:03:30 -0000 --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 03:38:29AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > Indigo 23 wrote: >=20 > > the ports? (I already know that it does require a recompilation of > > world and the kernel). >=20 > AFAIK nobody has succeeded in this (i.e. upgrading i386 to amd64 via > buildkernel/world) on-line far enough to tell the tale. You might be the > first :) Nah, I've done it several times. Yes, you will want to recompile all ports. While they may mostly work, some things (e.g. threaded applications) will currently fail, and if you ever want to build any new ports on that systemthey'll be very unhappy trying to link together 32-bit and 64-bit objects. Kris --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGc1L/Wry0BWjoQKURAkAIAJ9IaYZIPN0o9tLzWNkT6RqlFRN5ewCgxmp8 WgLA0nYx5VjqcJ9PZ2gvw0c= =6xTQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--