Making World For amd64

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jun 26 20:29:32 UTC 2008


Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>>> Is there anything special one has to do when doing a make world
>>> intended for 64-bit FreeBSD or is it sufficient to build the 64-bit
>>> kernel and make world as everywhere else?
>> The same as everywhere else.
>>
>> Kris
> 
> So, I take it that this means that all the userspace programs, ports,
> packages, utilities, etc. do *not* take advantage of the 64-bit
> extensions.  That is, only the kernel gets the benefit of the
> wider word.  Is that correct?
> 

No, everything is 100% native.

Kris



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