ia32 ports...

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Mon Feb 28 19:51:17 GMT 2005


On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:17:21AM -0500, David Gilbert wrote:
> Having wrestled with a few ports (including java) on amd64, what I
> don't understand is why we don't have the capability to compile ia32
> versions of ports that won't compile in amd64 mode...

We don't yet support building any 32-bit apps on a 64-bit system.  I have
some changes to GCC I need to finish.  We also need to start installing
the 32-bit headers and .a's.  And this is just for the base system.

If you want to build a 32-bit package under a 64-bit OS, you also need to
have two copies of gtk, gettext, libiconv, etc... installed.  It turns
into a mess.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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