make buildworld error

[Gert Cuykens]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:17:59 +0100, Peter Harmsen <pharmsen at horizon.nl> wrote:
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> Seems to me you specified amd64 in /etc/makeconf.
> If i remember correctly from some posts ago this is obsolete.
> You can however switch to 32-bit mode by specifying athlon-xp.
> Otherwise everything should be auto detected by gcc.

why is this obsolete it always worked that way ?