[Fwd: Re: Compiling on 64 bit SuSE (Was Re: List OK?)]

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Mon Sep 5 20:44:16 EDT 2005


  Des Dougan <des at douganconsulting.com>,
  In a message on Mon, 05 Sep 2005 16:30:45 -0700, wrote :

DD> -------- Forwarded Message --------
DD> From: Des Dougan <des at DouganConsulting.com>
DD> To: Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net>
DD> Subject: Re: Compiling on 64 bit SuSE (Was Re: List OK?)
DD> Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:52:06 -0700
DD> 
DD> On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 23:47 +0100, Maf. King wrote:
DD> > Hi Des,
DD> > 
DD> > Just to add a couple of cents - I'm in a similar position at the moment, 
DD> > trying to get a CAD-viewer app to build on my first x86_64 box (SuSE 9.3), 
DD> > and I feel that you might get more mileage out of trying to build GC as a 32 
DD> > bit app.
DD> > 
DD> > It is what I intend to try next (when I get time)- force everything "down" to 
DD> > 32 bit, which seems not to be the intended SuSE way, as the /*/lib64 
DD> > directories seem to be preferred....
DD> 
DD> Maf.,
DD> 
DD> I'm willing to try that. How does the force to 32 bit happen? Is it the
DD> --build configure option that does this?

Well, you need to install the 32-bit compiler, the 32-bit bintools, and
all of the 32-bit -devel rpms.  And then you won't be able to build
any 64-bit applications.  You might as well just install the 32-bit
version of Suse, in which case you might just as well just toss the
64-bit processors and get 32-bit ones....

At least that is my understanding.  From the messages, it looks like
Suse is just like RHEL 3.0 / WBL 3.0 (which is what we have at UMass). 
32-bit applications, built on 32-bit system run on the 64-bit system,
but you can't (in any trivial way) built 32-bit applications on the
64-bit box.  Not that there is any real need to do so -- we have plenty
of 'matching' 32-bit boxes (all running WBL 3.0, just like the x86_64).
I don't think you really want to use a 64-bit system to build 32-bit
applications.  You might be able to create a 'cross-build' sort of
environment, but that is somewhat non-trivial as well.

DD> 
DD> Thanks for your feedback,
DD> 
DD> Des
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