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Re: amd64 buildd



On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 05:21:52PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> 
> Do you need to use dash?

No, it was just set up that way.

> What I'm unclear of is that amd64 appears to be alone in actually
> requiring pages containing executable code to be mprotected
> |=PROT_EXEC.  This is now done by default on startup for all
> architectures. 

It's required?  I really have no idea about this.

> > Btw: It there a reason it forced -m64?  It shouldn't need that.
> 
> configure autodetects amd64 and builds 64bit.  Is this not the right
> way to do this?  64bit is much referred for lisp based programs like
> these -- likely the chief reason people would buy an amd64 to start
> with. 

Afaik it defaults to -m64.

> > It also seems you need to change your Build-Depends in maxima and
> > axiom.  There shouldn't be a space between the "(" and the ">=" it seems.
> > 
> 
> Does this foil the parser?  I thought it worked correctly.

Atleast it wasn't working properly for me using dpkg 1.10.18


Kurt



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