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Re: Cannot compile in testing



On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:47, Ben Collins wrote:
> In the newest packages, the compiler has some different defaults
> depending on a couple of criteria. If you are on an UltraSPARC (IOW,
> `uname -m' prints sparc64), and you have /usr/lib64/libc.so (IOW, you
> have libc6-dev-sparc64 installed), then the compiler will default to
> 64-bit mode. The way to get 32-bit compiles in this instance is easy,
> just prepend the sparc32 command to your build command. For example:

[snip]

Great, that works.  So once we have ensured that the 32-bit binary on
the SPARC, how do we execute 64-bit binaries?

"make test" will generate a 64-bit binary, but "./test", "sparc64
./test" and "sparc64 bash ... ./hello" all fail with "./hello: cannot
execute binary file"

Thanks again,
Ross
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