Centos and Dual Core Opteron in a Tyan Mobo

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On Sun, 14 May 2006, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 08:56 -0500, Erick Perez wrote:
>> Scott, The system will handle .... up all they way to 200 agents
>> talking simultaneously. It must also record the phone conversations
>>
>> we will definitely recompile asterisk in that box. we will not run the
>> bianries. However when you say compatibilities, you mean development
>> tools? the compiler? sendmail? apache?

> If you are going to compile items on an x86_64 box using the CentOS
> x86_64 arch, there are gotchas introduced by multiple libraries.
> What you want to make sure you have is a pure x86_64 build environment
> to build all x86_64 files.
>
> You may need these 2 files that are i[3,4,5,6]86 (and only these x86
> files ... any others can produce badly built binaries).
> glibc.i686
> glibc-devel.i386
>
> What this means is, you can't run i386 items (like Open Office) on your
> x86_64 machine that you want to use for building packages.

Does using mock get around this restriction?

-David