Re: add etc/PROBLEMS entry for building 32-bit exe on 64-bit system

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:

> On 2007-01-08 20:44, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> 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.

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