ia32 ports...

[Steve Kargl]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 08:49:05PM -0500, Sean wrote:
> 
> I thought I have seen posts stating that people are using 32 version of 
> programs on 64 bit amd?

It's a very simple concept.  If you have 64-bit FreeBSD dynamic
linked binaries, you need the 64-bit FreeBSD shared libraries to
run them.  If you have 32-bit FreeBSD dynamic linked binaries,
then you need the 32-bit FreeBSD shared libraries to run them.
If you have the 32-bit linux dynamic binaries, then you need to
have the 32-bit linux shared libraries.  I have 314 libraries and
symlinks in /usr/lib32.

> So I guess some people have done this with the two copies you mentioned?

David was talking about *building* the 32-bit software on a 64-bit
machine.  This isn't supported.  What you can do is take a 32-bit
binary, built on a 32-bit machine, and run it on your 64-bit amd64
system.  "make buildworld" is setup to build the needed 32-bit
libraries and loader on a 64-bit system/

> Then why if these 32 bit programs can't easily be built, if at all, do 
> we add such things as with_lib32=yes to make.conf and options like 
> LINPROCFS, COMPAT_LINUX32 ,COMPAT_IA32 , COMPAT_FREEBSD4 ,COMPAT_43 to 
> the kernel config?
> I thought with these added in 32 bit program support was available?

Yes.

-- 
Steve