Are you building a system from scratch or moving apps from a 32-bit system to a 64-bit 
system? If the latter and you are staying on, for example, SLES8 then your apps should 
work. There is a 32-bit compatability (or 64-bit toleration) layer of code in the 
kernel as well as the 32-bit libs living in /usr/lib and /lib. /usr/lib64 and /lib64 
contain the 64-bit stuff. 

If you are building from scratch then you can build the nuc. libs etc. on a 32-bit 
s390 system with a cross-compiler and then boot the resulting kernel in a virtual 
machine.

Neale

-----Original Message-----
Hello,

please can you help me to understand what I have to do coming from a
s390 system to get to a s390x system ?
) Is crosscompile with target s390x working on s390 or will I have to
crosscompile on x86 ?
) What will I have to do for compatibility with existing s390 programs
(compat libraries, ...)
) How would I have to build such libraries, ... ?

Please excuse my minimum knowledge in this area.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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