Mike Sullivan wrote:
> Leon wrote:
>> On the build instructions page it says:
>> "If you are building x86 binaries, you must use a 64-bit build machine
>> running the 64 bit kernel (6401063)."
>> Will there be a 32bit version? so i can compile this package on my
>> athlon-x86?
>>
>
> The issue is that some packages won't configure themselves to build
> 64-bit if they can't run a 64-bit program (binutils is the issue
> here I think). So you can build on a 32-bit x86 system but some things
> might not be enabled or even built and so the overall build might well
> fail (or at least be upset when checking/building packages).
>
> Yes this is a problem and it would be good to fix it, so if you
> can that would be great :)
BTW this is:
6401063 SFW should not require a 64-bit build machine
which of course is not visible on bugs.opensolaris.org yet.
But it says:
---
Several components in SFW fail to build on an i386 system
(or an amd64 system running a 32-bit kernel). There is no
good reason that a 64-bit-capable toolchain, which we have,
can't be used to produce the necessary binaries even on a
32-bit build machine. Note that this will likely require
autotools surgery since they tend to assume that the build
and host ISAs are identical.
---
Mike
