Word Processor on AMD64

Coleman Kane zombyfork at gmail.com
Mon Feb 28 01:22:25 GMT 2005


Works perfectly well for me:
cokane at erwin:~> file /usr/X11R6/bin/AbiWord-2.2 
/usr/X11R6/bin/AbiWord-2.2: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64,
version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

--
coleman kane

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:18:45 +0800 (CST), T.F. Cheng <tfcheng at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, I am a by-stander of this discussion. I used to
> run amd64 version but quite a lot app only run at
> i386, now I recall that there seems to be some issue
> about this and I couldn't get enable i386-compatible
> mode at that time, but seeing this, does this mean
> that all app now is able to run on amd64 without a
> problem?
> 
> thanks
> 
> TFC
> 
>  --- Coleman Kane <zombyfork at gmail.com> 寫道:
> > I have Abiword2 working on my system. Usually, I use
> > teTeX for most
> > work. I just use Abiword to read other people's word
> > docs.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:00:25 -0500, Damian Gerow
> > <dgerow at afflictions.org> wrote:
> > > Thus spake Steve Kargl
> > (sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu) [27/02/05 15:57]:
> > > : You don't swap over to 32-bit.  You can run
> > 32-bit FreeBSD
> > > : or linux binaries on the 64-bit FreeBSD (as
> > known as FreeBSd-amd64).
> > > :
> > > : Add the following to your kernel config and
> > rebuild.
> > > :
> > > : options       COMPAT_IA32
> > #Compatible with i386 binaries
> > > : options       COMPAT_LINUX32  #Compatible with
> > i386 linux binaries
> > > :
> > > :
> > > : Add "WITH_LIB32=yes" to /etc/make.conf and
> > rebuild world.
> > >
> > > Really?  Huh.  I was under the impression it
> > didn't work so well...  You
> > > learn something new every day!
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > >   - Damian
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> =====
> Best Regards,
> 
> Tsu-Fan Cheng
> 
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