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Date:      Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:31:21 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        JonathanGilpin <jonathan@fluent.ltd.uk>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Switching to AMD64 from I386 using make world
Message-ID:  <19125.16281.481644.877279@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090919201920.GI47688@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <25523741.post@talk.nabble.com> <20090919200643.GA70447@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20090919201920.GI47688@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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Kostik Belousov writes:

>  > You will also have to install all your ports  again as amd64 binaries.
>  
>  Not system-management 32bit applications should mostly work on
>  amd64.

	True, with due respect to "should mostly".
	On the other hand ... if you're installing from scratch, why
not go completely native?  I recently built an amd64 desktop which
now has 650+ ports installed.  (About 100 are X related.)  As far as
I know all build using amd64 binaries/libraries.


				Robert Huff







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