On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 09:08, Ben Collins wrote: > 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.
I would suggest gmp as one of the earlier libraries to upload in a 64 bit version. Jim
