--- "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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list