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From: bc20 on 9 Sep 2009 15:16
On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:09:54 +0000, bc20 wrote:

> On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:04:05 +0000, bc20 wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:24:36 +0000, bc20 wrote:
>>
>>
>> F$@! Doing that broke my sh$!
>>
>> I can't even do a simple slackbuild now.
>>
>> "C compiler cannot create executables"
>>
>> What kind of BS is this?
>
> Example:
>
> (xbill, first stupid little program that came to mind to use as example)
> )
> # ./xbill.SlackBuild
>
> [everything extracts ok]
>
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686 )
> works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
> cannot create executables.

Nevermind. I'm just stupid. I forgot to set the arch variable to x86_64

It works. Bill is running around stealing OS's...
From: Peter Chant on 9 Sep 2009 19:16
bc20 wrote:

> I was planning on staying "pure 64", but there are too many 32bit
> programs that I want to compile and run, so I caved in and added 32bit
> support.
>
> Everyone else finding themselves doing the same?
>
> http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:multilib

Simple choice for me. Bin perfectly good printer or go multilib.

Pete


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From: bc20 on 9 Sep 2009 19:55
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:16:56 +0100, Peter Chant wrote:

> bc20 wrote:
>
>> I was planning on staying "pure 64", but there are too many 32bit
>> programs that I want to compile and run, so I caved in and added 32bit
>> support.
>>
>> Everyone else finding themselves doing the same?
>>
>> http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:multilib
>
> Simple choice for me. Bin perfectly good printer or go multilib.
>
> Pete

I hear you. For me it was Skype as I have friends in Europe and
Argentina.

(Figured out the other thing with the Makefile. It was a GCC version
issue.)


From: Peter Chant on 17 Sep 2009 17:40
bc20 wrote:


>
> I hear you. For me it was Skype as I have friends in Europe and
> Argentina.
>
> (Figured out the other thing with the Makefile. It was a GCC version
> issue.)

Though I may be biased by limited use the seamless way Slamd64 handled 32
and 64 applications at once was impressive. OTOH I see the logic in going
for a pure 64 bit system.

Pete

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