[gentoo-amd64] Wine on amd64 - is it'32-bit'?

[gentoo-amd64] Wine on amd64 - is it'32-bit'?

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   I'm not sure how to describe the version of Wine I build on my
amd64 machine. Is it a 32-bit app using emulation libraries to talk to
the 64-bit kernel? Is it a 64-bit app that attempts to run 32-bit
Windows apps?

   It is not my intention to do anything fancy or out of the ordinary.
However I have filed, over the years, a number of bug reports for Wine
on older 32-bit machines. Now developers are asking me to dig out old
CDs and try again with these old programs. I'm happy to do that but
before I start I thought I should understand what it is I'm running
these days. If I install these old programs are my bug reports of
value to the Wine developers or will they toss them as invalid?

   So, what is it I'm running here and how could I determine this
myself? I tried emerge -ep --tree wine and sort of scanning through
the list but that's not very informative.

Thanks in advance,
Mark

lightning ~ # emerge -pv wine

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] app-emulation/wine-0.9.56  USE="X alsa cups gecko jack
jpeg ldap ncurses opengl oss xml (-dbus) -esd (-hal) -lcms (-nas)
-samba (-scanner)" 12,876 kB

Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 12,876 kB
lightning ~ #
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Wine on amd64 - is it'32-bit'?

[Christoph Mende]

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On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 17:10:29 -0800
"Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>

angelos@loki ~ % file =wine
/usr/bin/wine: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
(SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
stripped

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Wine on amd64 - is it'32-bit'?

[Chris Brennan]

Christoph Mende wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 17:10:29 -0800
> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> angelos@loki ~ % file =wine
> /usr/bin/wine: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
> (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
> stripped


This doesn't seem to work ... for my at least ...
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Wine on amd64 - is it'32-bit'?

[Christoph Mende]

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On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:01:35 -0500
Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> wrote:

> Christoph Mende wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 17:10:29 -0800
> > "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> > <snip>
> > 
> > angelos@loki ~ % file =wine
> > /usr/bin/wine: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
> > (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
> > stripped
> 
> 
> This doesn't seem to work ... for my at least ...

That most likely means you don't use zsh and thus gotta write something
like $(which wine) instead of =wine

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Wine on amd64 - is it'32-bit'?

[Chris Brennan]

Christoph Mende wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:01:35 -0500
> Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> wrote:
> 
>> Christoph Mende wrote:
>>> On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 17:10:29 -0800
>>> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> angelos@loki ~ % file =wine
>>> /usr/bin/wine: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
>>> (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
>>> stripped
>>
>> This doesn't seem to work ... for my at least ...
> 
> That most likely means you don't use zsh and thus gotta write something
> like $(which wine) instead of =wine


Ahh slick .... when I did file =/usr/bin/wine it still failed, so I cd'd
into /usr/bin and again it failed, but $(which wine) worked :D
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Wine on amd64 - is it'32-bit'?

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> wrote:
> Christoph Mende wrote:
>  > On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:01:35 -0500
>  > Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> wrote:
>  >
>  >> Christoph Mende wrote:
>  >>> On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 17:10:29 -0800
>  >>> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>> <snip>
>  >>>
>  >>> angelos@loki ~ % file =wine
>  >>> /usr/bin/wine: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
>  >>> (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
>  >>> stripped
>  >>
>  >> This doesn't seem to work ... for my at least ...
>  >
>  > That most likely means you don't use zsh and thus gotta write something
>  > like $(which wine) instead of =wine
>
>
>  Ahh slick .... when I did file =/usr/bin/wine it still failed, so I cd'd
>  into /usr/bin and again it failed, but $(which wine) worked :D
>

Thanks. For me file /usr/bin/wine worked fine:

lightning ~ # file /usr/bin/wine
/usr/bin/wine: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
(SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
stripped
lightning ~ #

I appreciate learning a new command.

Cheers,
Mark
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