On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 10:41:18PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > 64bit itself is not broken on Debian. The part that we have trouble with > is very fine grained. Dpkg selects architecture based on gcc's target. > For us, even on sparc64, that is "sparc-linux". > > However, if we want to enable 64bit support, we have to use (by default) > "sparc64-linux". We can't have that. So I have a patch (from 2.95.x) > that enabled this. > > Matthias, I'll get this tonight. I now have an extra ultrasparc to do > glibc/gcc testing on.
Thanks for piping up. After Mathias' message, I downloaded the gcc-3.2 source code from ftp.debian.org, unpacked it and applied the Debian patch. After building it, I could verify that it only builds the 32-bit version. I then cleaned out the build and did my own './configure sparc64-linux' in the GCC source directory and built again. This time, it builds a version that accepts both -m64 and -m32. Perhaps your patch makes sure that -m32 is default? Anyway, just wanted to verify your observations. -- Roy Bixler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
