I have several Opteron systems running 32 bit Debian and a very large C++ based software stack for doing Physics simulations and analysis (ROOT, Geant4, Gaudi). Somewhat recently the kernels for these CPUs switched to a 32/64 bit biarch kernel with the linux-image-amd64 series.
My problem is that "uname -m" now reports x86_64 and much of the software I build triggers off of this to use GCC's "-m64" flag. The build then fails as it then tells the g++ headers to include stuff that isn't there. I've tried to fix the problem software builds but they tenaciously refuse to bend to my will (gccxml is a particularly bad one). I also have more software that I know will fail, each in a uniquely annoying way, due to this 32/64 bit mismatch. I could downgrade to i686 kernels but I feel that would come with performance or support problems. I could override /bin/uname, but I worry that would lead to other problems. Does anyone have any suggestions to solve this problem? Thanks, -Brett. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
