Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:39:26 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Adriaan de Groot <adridg@cs.kun.nl> Cc: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FYI, I've switched my primary desktop to AMD64. Message-ID: <20031022153926.E22C02A7EA@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <200310221015.37534.adridg@cs.kun.nl>
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Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:57, you wrote:
> > Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > > On Friday 17 October 2003 19:17, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > > > I finally worked up the nerve to commit to eating my own dogfood. :-)
> >
> > a seperate drive, I can use boot0 to temporarily boot the old drive
> > and do things like buildworld and get ktraces of identical binaries
> > in action on a 32 bit system etc.
>
> Will a regular old 32-bit install of FBSD even boot? I have loads of drives
> kicking around with 4-STABLE installs of varying antiquity that would help
> get me started a lot faster.
Yes. It is a PC. With releng_4 and DDR400 ram, you can look forward to
12-13 minute buildworlds.
> > > My intention - KDE-FreeBSD core team - is to get KDE in its entirety
> > > working as well on amd64 as on x86.
> >
> > I ran into trouble with kde3base - it wants to link something like
> > libxkbfile.a into a shared library. This is fatal on amd64, but it
> > seems you can get away with it on i386.
>
> Well then that's one of the things I'll just have to fix, then. I've also bee
n
> struggling with things like #define unsigned int __u32; (a Linuxism) --
> what's the default int size on FBSD-amd64? (I realize I could assemble the
> system, boot the 5.1 snapshot from David, and find out for myself, but that
> may take quite some time).
int is 32 bit. long is 64 bit. The only reason for the build failure was
trying to put a non-pic libfoo.a library inside a .so shared lib.
Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
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