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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Why doesn't "make universe" work on amd64 machines ?
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It's quite a bother to have to reboot my fastest machine into i386
mode to run make universe.

Why doesn't it work ?

Is it fixable ?

If so, are anybody looking at fixing it ?

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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