From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Oo1n8-0007pn-0E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:16:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54AADE06D6; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:15:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.etherstorm.net (static-71-174-230-35.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [71.174.230.35]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA61E06D6 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:15:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.100.229] (Mouse.etherstorm.net [192.168.100.229]) by mail.etherstorm.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F09921C5802F for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:15:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C74449D.1040902@etherstorm.net> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:15:57 -0400 From: "tparker@etherstorm.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 32/64bit confusion References: <4C743164.7040508@etherstorm.net> <4C743D57.5030203@kutulu.org> In-Reply-To: <4C743D57.5030203@kutulu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f31a2d69-c9c2-4c7c-9cfe-fe016987f667 X-Archives-Hash: cd725a28d57d872b78f39e9cab5c0c3c On 8/24/2010 5:44 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote: > Since you're building from > source, very few programs actually need to be 32-bit apps on a 64-bit > OS. ... In this case, the Wine > package maintainer has set up the ebuild to build 32-bit by default, > even on an amd64 profile. ... > there is a whole list of packages > (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-*) that have prebuilt binaries for things > like GTK, QT, SDL, etc. (The packages in portage, including Wine, will > install the ones it needs automatically.) Thank you! This makes a lot more sense now. :) I knew what I needed had to be there, just didn't know how to find it.