On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:20:05PM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Jorn Argelo wrote: > > >Well, some things that are keeping me from the AMD64 version of FreeBSD is > >the lack of support for several programs. Including cvsup, and I don't > >know any other way to sync the ports-tree or the kernel sources. But that > >was with 5.2. > >1. I am not sure if FreeBSD still lacks cvsup. > > That begs the question: can't one run i386 executables on amd64? I > assumed that was not a problem?
You can, but it requires 32-bit versions of the libraries and dynamic linker if you want to run a dynamically-linked binary. There's better support for this in 6.0, I think - I don't know if this has been merged yet. Kris
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