On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:27:17PM -0800, Jonathan Dama wrote: > Thanks for clarifying that I wasn't just missing the > obvious. I suppose that's not surprising given all the > complicated things some builds do to configure themselves > based on testing the environment. > > What about the "simple" case of building ia32 on an amd64 > host? (Assuming WITH_LIB32 has been set in make.conf) > > I have the impression that amd64 has been setup with an > eye toward running a pure amd64 setup, but one of the > principle benefits of amd64 is it's support for i386 > binaries and libraries... > > It would be nice (and probably easier on many ports) if the > system was geared to have more ia32 centric userland--which > I might add is the tradition for mang 64-bit OSs. Having my > 64-bit ls is great and all, but really unnecessary + > wasteful. > > Are these sorts of changes in the pipeline or?
I don't believe anyone is working on it, but you can always just use precompiled packages. Kris
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