From: "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] x86 vs amd64 :: ppc vs ppc64 (was sys-apps is too big)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:49:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4223CA1A.1030104@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502282041.00844.vapier@gentoo.org>
Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 28 February 2005 08:34 pm, Olivier Crête wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 2005-28-02 at 17:21 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>>
>>>linux32 -> app-emulation (or maybe sys-devel with mips32/sparc32)
>>
>>Its not emulation... just tells the OS to advertise itself as i686
>>instead of x86_64. and its not specifically a dev tool
>
>
> anyone know why ppc64 doesnt do the samething ? if you run a 32bit userspace
> system with 64bit kernel, uname advertizes 'powerpc64' instead of
> 'powerpc' ...
> -mike
>
Well with FEATURES="autoconfig", no arches should really need this
anymore I would think. <arch>32 was mostly used just to trick the
configure script into using something it knows.
Steve
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-23 19:00 [gentoo-dev] sys-apps is too big Ciaran McCreesh
2005-02-23 19:07 ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-02-23 19:23 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-02-23 19:35 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-02-23 22:31 ` tchiwam
2005-02-23 22:51 ` Jim Northrup
2005-02-23 22:55 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-02-23 22:51 ` Greg KH
2005-02-23 21:43 ` Olivier Crête
2005-02-27 20:23 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-02-27 22:09 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-03-01 1:21 ` Robin H. Johnson
2005-03-01 1:34 ` Olivier Crête
2005-03-01 1:41 ` [gentoo-dev] x86 vs amd64 :: ppc vs ppc64 (was sys-apps is too big) Mike Frysinger
2005-03-01 1:49 ` Stephen P. Becker [this message]
2005-03-01 2:00 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-03-04 2:32 ` Kumba
2005-03-04 2:50 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-03-01 8:20 ` [gentoo-dev] sys-apps is too big Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-01 9:50 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-03-01 10:40 ` Stuart Longland
2005-03-01 11:54 ` Georgi Georgiev
2005-03-01 12:11 ` Stuart Longland
2005-03-01 14:08 ` [gentoo-dev] " Thomas Kirchner
2005-03-01 14:37 ` Robin H. Johnson
2005-03-01 14:55 ` [gentoo-dev] " Thomas Kirchner
2005-03-01 15:37 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-01 23:21 ` Stuart Longland
2005-03-01 23:33 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-01 23:40 ` Robin H. Johnson
2005-03-01 23:46 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-03-01 23:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-01 11:12 ` Aaron Walker
2005-03-01 18:08 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-03 20:43 ` Ciaran McCreesh
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