From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: add etc/PROBLEMS entry for building 32-bit exe on 64-bit system Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:54:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20070115062154.GC2855@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168884863 1887 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2007 18:14:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:14:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 15 19:14:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H6VbW-000381-5k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:26:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H6OYb-0006rQ-Ec for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:55:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H6OYK-0006px-TY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:54:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H6OYF-0006mg-Qw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:54:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H6OYF-0006md-LM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:54:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.15] (helo=mx2.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H6OYC-0007GA-Tg; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:54:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E42C2187B; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:54:42 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Giorgos Keramidas X-Yow: With YOU, I can be MYSELF.. We don't NEED Dan Rather.. In-Reply-To: <20070115062154.GC2855@kobe.laptop> (Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:21:54 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:65199 Archived-At: Giorgos Keramidas writes: > On 2007-01-08 20:44, Glenn Morris 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. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."