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Re: add etc/PROBLEMS entry for building 32-bit exe on 64-bit system
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Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: add etc/PROBLEMS entry for building 32-bit exe on 64-bit system |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:54:42 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
Giorgos Keramidas <address@hidden> writes:
> On 2007-01-08 20:44, Glenn Morris <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I suggest adding something like the following to etc/PROBLEMS and
>> etc/TODO. I not infrequently want to compile 32-bit apps on 64-bit
>> systems (so that they can be run on otherwise identical 64- and 32-bit
>> systems).
>
> I don't really think the text below is correct.
>
> I have been building 32-bit versions of Emacs 22 on Solaris amd64
> systems for several months now, and the build works fine. This means
> that, at least the following part of the text below is false:
>
> "when building on a 64-bit platform, you must build a 64-bit
> executable"
Same for PowerPC64 systems, where the runtime environment is 32-bit by
default.
Andreas.
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Re: add etc/PROBLEMS entry for building 32-bit exe on 64-bit system, Richard Stallman, 2007/01/09
Re: add etc/PROBLEMS entry for building 32-bit exe on 64-bit system, Giorgos Keramidas, 2007/01/15