Re: Debian 64-bit binaries

[James Morrison <ja2morri@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

Igmar Palsenberg <maillist@jdimedia.nl> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> I've got Debian running on a 64 bit Sparc box. The userland is however 
> still 32 bits, and that restriction has been lifted in 2.4.25. Is there 
> any plan to recompile userland to 64 bits ? 
> 
> I'm willing to spends a few weekends recompining, but i'm not so familiar 
> with the dpkg system. Anyone ?
> 
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 		Igmar

 There is no current plan to have a 64-bit userland for Debian on sparc.
However, you can install libc6-sparc64 and compile your own 64-bit binaries.

Jim