--- Emmanuel Durin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Athlon64 processors can execute 32 bits > instructions. But you can't > use 32 bits executables with 64 bits libraries (or > contrary), and this > will append while recompiling your system (when a > library used by > emerge or gcc will be recompiled), so it should fail > at any time. I > think it can be done, respecting a certain order and > maintaining > executables links to librairies by hand. Already > it's not really > recommended to modify the CHOST variable without > starting with a stage
This could be done if you were to untar an AMD64 stage tarball on top of your 32 bit system. You would need an x86_64 kernel (like the one on the install cd). I don't recommend this and doubt anyone else would. ;-) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list