On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:10:23AM -0300, Martin Marques wrote: > With all this 64bits discussion of the last day, I was thinking... the debs > that come with Debian SPARC, surelly are compiled with 32 bit support, right? > Isn't there plans on having more 64 bits support in the linux SPARC > distribution. > I mean, I'm right now compiling, with some problems, PostgreSQL-7.4RC2, and I > think it's going out with 64 bit support. Now, on some application, I find 64 > to be little important, but on my database server it may be crucial to have > it (if the arch supports it).
We're building up to more things being available as 64-bit. Right now we have libc and libncurses, which are the primary. Before long, things will be selectively getting 64-bit builds aswell. It's just a matter of time. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
