On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:42:10PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello, > > Recently, I was told that the `lm' flag (for "long mode") in > /proc/cpuinfo roughly means "x86-64". My laptop has an Intel Core 2 > Duo, which has this flags, and really is "x86-64". However, to Nix, my > system is `i686-linux' although it could/should be `x86_64-linux'. > > Consequently, GNU `config.guess' returns `i686-pc-linux-gnu' because I > only have an i686 tool chain. > > I'm not sure where the initial misconfiguration occurred, but it looks > like there's room for improvement here. Ideas? > > Thanks, > Ludo'.
I'm not sure.. But AFAIK its no problem to run an i686 system on a x68-64 system. So if you've used the i686 installation cd/dvd of nixos that's what I'd expect. Which one have you used to setup your system? Are you running nixos or nix only? Marc _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
