Right, but if you also change the host to x86_64 it will never run
config.guess, so it has no idea what CPUID returns. Then you should be
able to select ABI=64 (or in fact that should be automatic).

Bill.

2009/2/5 mabshoff <michael.absh...@mathematik.uni-dortmund.de>:
>
>
>
> On Feb 5, 12:20 pm, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I don't understand why you don't get ABI=64 when you select
>> -host=x86_64-blah. It *should* give you ABI = 64. If not there is some
>> other problem here.
>
> Well, with gmp 4.2.1 on William's Xeon OSX box doing "ABI=64 ./
> configure" stopped dead in its tracks because gmp did not consider the
> CPU in question capable of 64 bits. To get a 64 bit gmp 4.2.1 on that
> box you had to set CFLAGS to include '-m64' and select the generic C
> code. The same is likely to apply here since the AMD K6 is not 64 bits
> and the abilist only has 32. I do not have access to the box is
> question, so I cannot test any of this.
>
>> Perhaps I mean -build=x86_64-blah.
>
> Well, as mentioned in the last email it looks like a bug in kvm and/or
> qemu to me. I checked and at least kvm on x86-64 requires
> virtualization instructions that are only in somewhat recent AMD and
> Intel CPUs, so selecting an AMD K6 as virtual CPU seems like a strange
> choice.
>
>> Bill.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
> >
>

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