Re: Confused about 64bit

2005-06-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > Hi, I'm confused and I hope that you can help me out. > > I'm running the pure64 port of Debian on an AMD64. > > My understanding about the AMD64 was that is could run in three modes: > > 1)32 bit emulation mode where you are using

Re: Confused about 64bit

2005-06-21 Thread Adam Skutt
Helge Hafting wrote: Unfortunately, libraries have the same name no matter if they're 32- or 64-bit, so you can only have one kind at a time. Unless you set up a chroot or use other tricks. Or, you know, install the 64 libraries in /lib64 and let ld.so do all the work. -- Internal Virus Da

Re: Confused about 64bit

2005-06-21 Thread Helge Hafting
Graham Smith wrote: Hi, I'm confused and I hope that you can help me out. I'm running the pure64 port of Debian on an AMD64. My understanding about the AMD64 was that is could run in three modes: 1)32 bit emulation mode where you are using a 32bit kernel and 32 bit libraries (eg WinXP). 2)mi

Confused about 64bit

2005-06-21 Thread Graham Smith
Hi, I'm confused and I hope that you can help me out. I'm running the pure64 port of Debian on an AMD64. My understanding about the AMD64 was that is could run in three modes: 1)32 bit emulation mode where you are using a 32bit kernel and 32 bit libraries (eg WinXP). 2)mixed mode with a 64 bit