ia32 ports...

[Sean]

Steve Kargl wrote:
> 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.
> 
But all this means the 32 bit versions can't be built on a 64 bit version?