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Re: amd64 buildd



Greetings!

Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be> writes:

> 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.
> 

BTW, just uploaded gcl_2.6.1-37 last night which should work for amd64
out of the box, and carry maxima,acl2 and axiom there too.  In case
you have a moment to give it a whirl.

> > > 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
> 

OK, I'll look at/fix this.

Take care,

> 
> Kurt
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire			     			camm@enhanced.com
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