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Re: Help: Strange 64bit issue



On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:37:10AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> Do you have the right kernel and libc installed?
>
> What is "the right" kernel / libc???
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux wr-linux02 2.6.22-3-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 20:20:49 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> It was installed via the the Debian kernel package:
>
> $ dpkg -l linux-image* | grep ^ii.*2\.6\.2
> ii  linux-image-2.6-686                                     2.6.24+13                            Linux 2.6 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
> ii  linux-image-2.6.22-3-686                                2.6.22-6.lenny1                      Linux 2.6.22 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/
> ii  linux-image-2.6.24-1-686                                2.6.24-7                             Linux 2.6.24 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/
>
> (the host was not rebootet after installing 2.6.24, but the same happens
> on another boc running 2.6.24)
>
> $ dpkg -l libc6* | grep ^ii
> ii  libc6                                                   2.7-10                               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libc6-amd64                                             2.7-10                               GNU C Library: 64bit Shared libraries for AM
> ii  libc6-dev                                               2.7-10                               GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea
> ii  libc6-dev-amd64                                         2.7-10                               GNU C Library: 64bit Development Libraries f
> ii  libc6-i686                                              2.7-10                               GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 optimi

You can build 64-bit executables on any machine if supported in the toolchain
but you need a 64-bit kernel to run them, as linux-image-2.6.x-y-amd64. And of
course you need a 64-bit capable CPU to use those kernels.

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