On Monday, July 23, 2012 11:53:39 AM UTC-4, Keshav Kini wrote:
>
> tvn <[email protected]> writes: 
> > That's what I mean: my Debian OS is *NOT* 64 bit --  uname -a *DOES 
> > NOT* tell you about the OS but rather the capability of the machine 
> > hardware.  If the build script makes the same assumption and attempts 
> > to build 64 bit packages based on uname's out then this should be a 
> > bug -- as shown in my situation. 
>
> `uname` output tells you about the target architecture the kernel was 
> built for, not the capability of the machine hardware. It looks to me 
> like you're running a 32-bit userland on top of a 64-bit kernel (from 
> what little I know of such things). That is an unusual situation afaik 
> and I wouldn't be surprised if Sage is buggy on such systems... 
>
>
I don't think my situation is unusual as many people run 32 bit OS on 64 
capable hardware because many legacy software are 32 bit.  In fact, I 
didn't even have to do any special configuration:  just grab the 32 bit 
Debian installation and install it directly on this machine.   Moreover,  I 
think the "recommended" Ubuntu version on its download page is 32 bit - 
regardless if your machine is capable of 64 bit or not.  


 

> -Keshav 
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