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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Possible to run i386 binaries on AMD64?
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On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 12:55:02PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 12:48:33PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > Is it possible to run I386 binaries on an AMD64 FreeBSD system?
> 
> For the most part, yes.  I use a static i386 perforce binary on my test
> box and it's always worked for me.  Peter added a script to build 32-bit
> libs in src/tools/lib32 but I haven't used it yet.  You can also run
> i386-linux binaries as of today.
> 

The script is massively broken because of the recent 
changes to make(1) and the recent import of gcc 3.4.2.
I've spent a few days trying to get it to work, but 
my only reward is frustration.

Oh, I should have mentions I can run my static i386 binaries,
it is dynamically linked binaries that trouble me.

-- 
Steve