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Re: basic biarch for amd64



On Tuesday 15 March 2005 06:14, Alex Perry wrote:
> Marc MERLIN wrote:
> >We already have a custom toolchain to build 64 binaries, static or
> > dynamic, and my only requirement for now is to be able to run 64 binaries
> > on them. Static only would be ok initially.
>
> Static is trivial; just put them into a suitable directory in the path.
> Nothing special required since no library searching will occur.
>

but note extra requirement: you must have a kernel compiled for Amd64 running.

I seem to remember that i386 arch came with a package with just such a kernel. 
Install that (if indeed it does exist) and you'll be fine.

Ernest.



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