From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 4 22:50:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C36F16A41F for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 22:50:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C13A343D5C for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 22:50:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2198226F6AC for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:50:51 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54296-01 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:50:49 -0400 (AST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-82-85.eastlink.ca [24.222.82.85]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FAA926EACA for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:50:50 -0400 (AST) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F110346575; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:50:55 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F042C3C1F1 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:50:55 -0400 (AST) Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:50:55 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051204184826.D1077@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org Subject: A stupid 64bit question ... but ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:50:56 -0000 I recently bought a new Intel Xeon server, and when I put it together, I didn't realize that the newer Xeon's were 64bit ... now, I've just built perl 5.8.7, and its reporting: ================= # perl -v This is perl, v5.8.7 built for i386-freebsd-64int (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2005, Larry Wall Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit. Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'. If you have access to the Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page. ================== I realize that this may be a stupid question, but am I correct in that *this* is a 64bit machine, and I should be enabling the AMD64 stuff on her? Thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664