AMD64 support in 5.x versions

Greg J. xcas at cox.net
Wed Jan 7 06:21:56 PST 2004


Jem Matzan wrote:

> I've tried just about everything AMD64 in terms of operating systems,
> and I can say for certain that no one is anywhere near the level of
> functionality that their i386 arch is. Even SuSE and RedHat with their
> retail box AMD64 distros only offer limited AMD64 functionality. Gentoo
> will install but few things will compile properly. I'd consider FreeBSD
> and NetBSD further along than Gentoo at this point, except for the fact
> that Gentoo can update its source code and FreeBSD can't (without the
> special hacked CVSup).
> FreeBSD would be a step ahead of everyone else if IA32 binary
> compatibility worked.

Where would one get the hacked cvsup? I'm dying to find an easier way to 
update ports & src.



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