On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 04:52:15PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 16:23, Ben Collins wrote: > > > "make test" will generate a 64-bit binary, but "./test", "sparc64 > > > ./test" and "sparc64 bash ... ./hello" all fail with "./hello: cannot > > > execute binary file" > > > > My assumption is that you do not have 64-bit ELF support in your kernel. > > Makes sense... > > /me looks > > It appears the kernel needs updating :) > > /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-sun4u > > If I install kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64 I don't lose anything, right? > I can still run 32-bit applications as well as 64-bit applications?
If you suddenly couldn't run the primary binary type, that would be a bug :) 64-bit, while now enabled and usable, still will not become the primary binary type for sparc32/sparc64. You should be safe. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
