From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ETVkG-0007OL-9H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:38:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9N2YgUY031434; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:34:42 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.203]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9N2V7SS004915 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:31:08 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so174395nzc for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:34:08 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=eTaot603vfR6cvy2NRs/RHpgiEn7Bzmg3tmzDWyGZdRWslFrNjHAoqRU4MakME8aDNDnl2rTz4i/sjmloQd8zareNrLaTpV8Q2lQ/eD8nvffY+e381eca6QjMyFNVvIwTfTeL80jYagrsgdp18FaMS7WNst5vS5C3iLaFuAZ/ms= Received: by 10.36.220.31 with SMTP id s31mr4472034nzg; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:34:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.3.5 with HTTP; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:34:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <432beae0510221934g452bacdbp46059bdf5652fd46@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:34:08 -0700 From: Justin Patrin To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] i386 vs amd64 In-Reply-To: <435AA7F4.2090406@comcast.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <43583153.2070603@comcast.net> <20051020211937.4a0ce510@chi.speakeasy.net> <435AA7F4.2090406@comcast.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j9N2V7SS004915 X-Archives-Salt: 0d68d81e-5fcf-4e34-b32e-8f6d01da4b18 X-Archives-Hash: 57c7e14e4681a19240e6a813f126fad8 On 10/22/05, Sean wrote: > > > All, > > Thanks for your responses, I plan to try out the amd64 version. > Be very careful if you're doing any cross-compiling. The system headers in Gentoo AMD64 are hacked to allow compiling for both 64 and 32-bit. If you try compiling for, say, ARM and it picks up the system headers you get *nothing*....wonderful, eh? To Gentoo devs: Might I suggest that the system headers default to 32-bit? -- Justin Patrin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list