FYI, I've switched my primary desktop to AMD64.

[Peter Wemm]

Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:57, you wrote:
> > Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > > On Friday 17 October 2003 19:17, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > > > I finally worked up the nerve to commit to eating my own dogfood.  :-)
> >
> > a seperate drive, I can use boot0 to temporarily boot the old drive
> > and do things like buildworld and get ktraces of identical binaries
> > in action on a 32 bit system etc.
> 
> Will a regular old 32-bit install of FBSD even boot? I have loads of drives 
> kicking around with 4-STABLE installs of varying antiquity that would help 
> get me started a lot faster.

Yes.  It is a PC.  With releng_4 and DDR400 ram, you can look forward to
12-13 minute buildworlds.

> > > My intention - KDE-FreeBSD core team - is to get KDE in its entirety
> > > working as well on amd64 as on x86.
> >
> > I ran into trouble with kde3base - it wants to link something like
> > libxkbfile.a into a shared library.  This is fatal on amd64, but it
> > seems you can get away with it on i386.
> 
> Well then that's one of the things I'll just have to fix, then. I've also bee
    n 
> struggling with things like #define unsigned int __u32; (a Linuxism) -- 
> what's the default int size on FBSD-amd64? (I realize I could assemble the 
> system, boot the 5.1 snapshot from David, and find out for myself, but that 
> may take quite some time).

int is 32 bit.  long is 64 bit.  The only reason for the build failure was
trying to put a non-pic libfoo.a library inside a .so shared lib.

Cheers,
-Peter
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