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Re: building slrn on sparc



On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:45:20 -0500
Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org> wrote:

> > Absolutely not, I vehemently disagree.
> > 
> > When uname returns sparc64, gcc should produce 64-bit executables by default.
> > It is the only set of sane semantics for GCC bootstraps for example.
> 
> That would be much more reasonable if uname returned 'sparc' by default.

It's not a 'sparc' system, it's a sparc64 one.

If _you_ want 'sparc' by default, you can do this by running "sparc32 bash"
or whatever shell you use, in that session uname will return 'sparc'.



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