New Release

Danial Thom danial_thom at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 15 08:08:47 PDT 2005


--- Paul Allen <pallen at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> > So does FreeBSD have limited resources for
> the emulation
> > layer :)
> > You can of course build 32-bit binaries, just
> have like any
> > cross-compiling. You can even use the normal
> IA32 compiler
> > suite,
> > with some minor meedling with search
> directories and the
> > like.
> 
> Of course.  That was really an elliptic
> reference to this pr:
> amd64/76224
> 
> David O'Brien replied:
> "We don't yet support building 32-bit apps on a
> a 64-bit system. 
> We only barely support *running* them at this
> point. " 
> and then closed the pr.
> 
> It's rather amusing that known defects don't
> deserve open 
> problem reports, and you can't really expect
> people to stop
> submitting reports if you keep marking as
> closed the previous 
> reports without fixing them.

They have bigger problems to tackle; like the
overall design concept.

Danial


		
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