Fix wrote:
> Nevertheless, now I've finished building a __pure__ 64-bit *LFS
> without use of the cross compilation, with slight deviations from the
> book. All the libraries now are 64-bit and they're placed in
> {,/usr}/lib instead of {,/usr}/lib64. In order to achieve this, six
> different patches (four patches for gcc, two for glibc) were written
> and applied at a different stages of a build process.
>
> My toolchain:
> binutils-2.17.50.0.12
> gcc-4.1.2
> glibc-2.5
Some benchmarks against a 32-bit build would be interesting. My
understanding is that 64-bit systems have larger binaries, use more ram,
and are slower the equivalent 32-bit systems unless you are doing some
fairly serious number crunching.
-- Bruce
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