AMD64-patch for buildworld

Noah yan noah.yan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 15:00:24 PDT 2007


Matt,

can you give more details of varsyms for building 32 and 64 bit world
in the same place?   it is not a time to worry about it, but it is a
time that i should know this :).

Thanks
YYH

On 8/2/07, Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
> :Simon,
> :
> :patch attached, totally 6. please apply them in order. commit message
> :is in tar ball.
> :
> :for those who are interested: the buildworld cross-build completes
> :with this patches and i am working on the cross-buildkernel. a slow,
> :but still a progress :).
> :
> :yonghong
>
>      The patches look great and large chunks of them look committable
>      as well.
>
>      I really want to make it possible to have both a 32 and 64 bit world
>      installed simultaniously by using varsyms in critical places (i.e.
>      /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/pkg, /usr/lib, /usr/libexec,
>      and so forth).  But it is probably too early to start worrying about
>      that.
>
>                                                 -Matt
>
>





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