Re: Amd64 status
Hi,
John Goerzen wrote:
How are things doing?
I am quite new on ADM64 and since we have a test machine here only for
the next two weeks, but I tried to install Debian AMD64 basically the
whole last week.
These are my impressions:
First I read all the things I could find for beginners :).
Because I did not have anything from Debian which was booting the
machine, I used an old Knoppix to install the base system and replaced
that later with Debian testing (i386).
Now that I had something booting from disk, I installed a second testing
into a chroot using amd64 from alioth
deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/ sarge main)
mixed with stable(i386)to get a crosscompiler for a 64bit-kernel.
Compiling was quite easy, so now I had a 64-bit kernel running a 32-bit
system.
So i tried to install a mixed 32bit/64bit sarge system (again in a
chroot). The most successfull try used
deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/ sarge(amd64) main
deb http://farbror.acc.umu.se/amd64/ sarge(amd64) main
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ woody(i386) main
but whatever I did, I always had the problem that /lib and /lib64 were
messed up, so e.g. libpopt for 32 bit and 64 bit install both in /lib
and because most packages were still 32 bit, but libpopt was 64bit, it
did not work - installing the 32-bit version helped - but not for the
64-bit programms again. I read that there might be still argues about
the place to put the libs and about bugs in the some packages putting
the libs always in /lib ect. - so I gave up with that.
Well - the second reason was that I need to have a Fortran90 compiler
and at present I have to take a commercial product for this. I tried
several, but I could not get one to work on the mixed system.
Then I tried the pure amd64, again in a chroot, this time sid:
deb ftp://bytekeeper.as28747.net/amd64/jgoerzen/amd64 sid main
deb http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/amd64/ sid main
This worked quite well, the system seems to lack some packages, but I
can live with that. I have all important things for me (which is
basicaly gcc, cvs) and at least one of the commercial compilers seems to
work.
Do we need an autobuilder?
If this increases the available packages - yes.
Also thanks for all the people working on this. Without you, the machine
would still run Suse. :/
Frank Loeffler
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