Making World For amd64

Tim Daneliuk tundra at tundraware.com
Thu Jun 26 20:01:50 UTC 2008


Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>> Is there anything special one has to do when doing a make world
>> intended for 64-bit FreeBSD or is it sufficient to build the 64-bit
>> kernel and make world as everywhere else?
> 
> The same as everywhere else.
> 
> Kris

So, I take it that this means that all the userspace programs, ports,
packages, utilities, etc. do *not* take advantage of the 64-bit
extensions.  That is, only the kernel gets the benefit of the
wider word.  Is that correct?

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