questions re 32bit & 64bit ports in a 64bit world
Alexander Leidinger
Alexander at Leidinger.net
Wed Jun 27 11:16:26 UTC 2007
Quoting Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> (from Wed, 27 Jun 2007
01:55:25 -0700):
> I updated my i386 -current world amd64 machine to a 64bit
> -current world by cross compiling, installing on a spare
> partition and rebooting with that partition as root. The
> whole process went pretty smoothly.
>
> All the 32 bit ports that I tried so far (all except cvsup)
> seem to work fine but they still pick up shared libs from
> /usr/local/lib which will cause problems if I now add 64bit
> ports. I really don't want to have to recompile and retest
> any 32bit port in 64bit mode if it already works well enough.
> It would be nice if 32bit ports and 64bit ports can co-exist.
> Is this possible? Seems to me for this to work ld-elf32.so
> would have to somehow first check /usr/local/lib32.
I don't own a 64bit machine, but have you already played with
ldconfig32_paths in rc.conf?
It may be the case that libtool hardcodes some paths somehow (either
directly in the binary or via the .lo's)...
Bye,
Alexander.
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