i386 & amd64

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:20:05PM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> Jorn Argelo wrote:
> 
> >Well, some things that are keeping me from the AMD64 version of FreeBSD is 
> >the lack of support for several programs. Including cvsup, and I don't 
> >know any other way to sync the ports-tree or the kernel sources. But that 
> >was with 5.2.
> >1. I am not sure if FreeBSD still lacks cvsup.
> 
> That begs the question: can't one run i386 executables on amd64?  I 
> assumed that was not a problem?

You can, but it requires 32-bit versions of the libraries and dynamic
linker if you want to run a dynamically-linked binary.  There's better
support for this in 6.0, I think - I don't know if this has been
merged yet.

Kris
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