On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 07:56:50AM -0700, Garl Grigsby wrote: > Jacob Meuser wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 08:19:35PM -0700, Michael Miller wrote: > > > >>Well I would give the 64-bit version of the CentOS Kernel. I should > >>say give RHEL X 64-bit Kernel another year. If you only have two GB > >>of ram and no upgrades to four GB of ram for 6 months. I would go > >>with 32-bit for another 6 months while all 64-bit compiling gotchas > >>are fixed in GCC and any 64-bit kernel security issues are fixed. > >> > >what? "all 64-bit compiling gotchas are fixed in GCC"? please > >tell, what "64-bit compiling gotchas" are in gcc? I've been using > >gcc on an amd64, in 64-bit mode, for over a year. I haven't > >seen any "gotchas". > > > >now, if you are talking about _libtool_ issues with /usr/lib and > >/usr/lib64 (or /usr/lib32), that is a whole other problem that has > >nothing to do with gcc. these could be elimitated by ditching > >32-bit support and going 64-bit all the way. > > > Where have you run into problems with libtool?
me, never. I don't use mixed environments. but [email protected] gets reports of this issue on a fairly regular basis. > I've seen many a post > about problems with firefox and its plugins, because they are 32-bit binaries? > but nothing about the > server side of things ( like samba, bind, mysql, apache, etc.). Have you > seen or run into problems with these applications? no. I don't use samba though. I do use bind, mysql and apache on amd64. AFAIK, recent versions of samba are fine on amd64. > >and then of course, there is software that makes 32-bit assumptions, > >or only has assembly code for x86. again these have nothing to do > >with "64-bit compiling gotchas" in gcc. the software, not gcc, has > >"64-bit compiling gotchas". > > > Examples? they are becoming more rare, as more people become aware of the issues. well, actually gstreamer-0.8 doesn't support amd64 if the platform doesn't have a certain function. don't remember what the function is off-hand, but if it is missing, gstreamer has an assembly version. but there was no amd64 version of the assembly. I'm sure there are some examples out there (anything that hasn't had a new release in the last 1.5 years is more likely to have problems) but I can't think of anything that is still being maintained that is not 64-bit aware (gstreamer-0.10 is fine on amd64, for example). well, actually, X has some API oddities (confusing) that seem to trip up people. but it seems most of these have been fixed now as well. people have been using 64-bit platforms as servers for quite some time. most (almost all) of the issues I've seen were in "desktop" software. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
