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From: Paul Allen <nospam@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: cc can't build 32-bit executables on amd64
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This was originally mentioned in amd64/76224 which was closed by obrien with the
terse remark: "We don't yet support building 32-bit apps on a 64-bit system. We
only barely support *running* them at this point."

Really this deserves an errata mention at the very least.  It just simply
isn't intuitive that this functionality would be missing from a tier-1 release.

                         Paul

>From Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>, Mon, May 01, 2006 at 04:04:26PM -0400:
> Can I direct someone's attention to the annoying but easy to fix bug:
> 
> 	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=gnu/96570
> 
> There are still a few days left to make sure, FreeBSD-6.1 is shipped with 
> amd64 being able to link 32-bit executables.
> 
> Release Engineers insist, it must be fixed in current first...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 	-mi
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