From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 29 22:53:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898BB16A4CE; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:53:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from TRANG.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 545E243D54; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:53:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by TRANG.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7TMrFg3094551; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:53:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i7TMrEhJ094550; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:53:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:53:14 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" Message-ID: <20040829225314.GE92947@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20040809184110.V80973@carver.gumbysoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup on amd64 just broke today X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:53:24 -0000 On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 08:54:43PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > On 10-Aug-2004 Doug White wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > >> # make update > >> -------------------------------------------------------------- > >> >>> Running /usr/local/bin/cvsup > >> -------------------------------------------------------------- > >> /usr/local/libexec/cvsup-static.i386.bin: 1: Syntax error: "(" > >> unexpected > >> *** Error code 2 > > > > Can you run cvsup manually? It appears to be trying to execute a > > binary as a shell script here. > > Tried that, got the same result. > > I hadn't noticed it before, but it does strike me as odd that the > binary package for amd64 would include a file with "i386" in the name, > and which is, in fact, an ELF 32 binary. Why is it odd?!? The ability to run legacy 32-bit x86 binaries under a 64-bit OS at full-speed is one of the huge capabilities AMD brought with this architecture. Unless a binary does 64-bit math or addresses >4GB of memory why does something need to be 64-bit??? The fact that all Open Source OS's have a 64-bit userland on all their 64-bit platforms that grew up from 32-bit CPU's shows how unsophisticated our build framework is. "64-bit" Solaris today is really a 64-bit kernel and mostly 32-bit userland. > Did something change today that would effect the handling of such a > file, perhaps? Nope, it has been a 32-bit 'i386' binary since the day the port started supporting FreeBSD/AMD64. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)