--- "Budd, Tracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm.
>
> While admittedly extreme, shouldn't setting the new
> architecture work, if
> you recompile the entire system? Is this one of
> those
> should-work-in-theory-but-
> don't-try-this-at-home kind of things? I know there
> are some packages, like
> openoffice, that won't compile under the 64-bit
> arch, but I can just use the
> binaries for those, no?
>
You need a cross compiler to compile x86_64 binaries
from a plain x86 userland. It's easier to grab an
existing AMD64 stage tarball.
> What if I don't bother updating the arch? Isn't the
> Athlon64 backwards
> compatible with the i386 arch? I know I would lose
> the benefits of the
> 64-bit arch, but I would probably be ok with that
> for awhile, until this
> upgrade path got a little easier.
Sure, why not? If you have enough disk space you could
install x86_64 in a separate partition for testing
purposes before you migrate.
Like Emmanuel said, with multilib you can use 32 bit
x86 binaries along side your x86_64 binaries.
Zac
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