Hello, On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 04:51:27PM +0100, Guy Coates wrote: > I've installed Sarge x86 on a opteron system. When changing the > kernel from > > kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp > to > kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8-smp > > the machine architecture as reported by uname changes: > > When running kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp > > uname -m > i686 > > On kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8-smp > uname -m > x86_64 > > > Concequently, many applications fail to build correctly > from source (eg the linux kernel, probably anything using > config.guess) as the architecture is incorrectly specified.
This is considered a feature. Because the amd64 port was too late to officially release a complete 64bit userland with sarge, we choose to add rudimentary support to 32bit userland (as in a 64bit kernel, amd64-libs[-dev] and gcc-3.4 with cross-compiling abilities). You could either - install the unofficial 64bit port - use the 32bit k7-smp kernel as the best approximation to a 32bit k8 flavour - or just stay with the 64bit kernel and use linux32(1) to trick uname configure and co to use i686 instead of x86_64. In either case I would like to close the bug, or retitle it into a whishlist "please provide 32bit k8 flavours" if this was your intention in the first place. Best regards Frederik Schueler -- ENOSIG
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