From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j211nKWT018811 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 01:49:21 GMT Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D5wVh-0005yh-6g for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 01:49:17 +0000 Received: from vivi.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-vivi.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.12]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j211nKjG021471 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:49:20 -0500 Received: from [128.173.184.75] (gs75.geol.vt.edu [128.173.184.75]) by vivi.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.5.7-GR) with ESMTP id CSC51042; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:49:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4223CA1A.1030104@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:49:14 -0500 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] x86 vs amd64 :: ppc vs ppc64 (was sys-apps is too big) References: <20050223190035.618a8aab@snowdrop> <20050301012151.GA19328@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <1109640845.23874.6.camel@localhost> <200502282041.00844.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200502282041.00844.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lennier.cc.vt.edu id j211nKjG021471 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j211nKWT018811 X-Archives-Salt: 786d71ad-0bf2-4ebc-9e27-2cb2e9c9c708 X-Archives-Hash: 29c88ecdd792f34ab78ec818e2c121f8 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. 32 was mostly used just to trick the configure script into using something it knows. Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list