Damien Touraine writes: > Hello, > > I have an Athlon 64 computer. I was really happy to discover that XFree > is dealing with such architecture. However, in my case I would like to > have both 64 bits libraries as well as 32 bits ones (such as on SGI > architecture where libraries are compiled three times : old 32 bits, new > 32 bits and 64 bits). > > However, I haven't been able to directly compile 32 bits with my X86-64 > compiler (that can also generate 32 bits binaries). For my current > installation, I had to get the binaries for 32 bits, install them in the > /usr/X11R6 directory, remove every files other than librairies > (directories man, share, bin, ...) and then compiling XFree on the 64 > bits architecture and install it in the same directory. > Then, I discovered that by default, the 64 bits binaries are going to > search for modules (drivers, extensions, ...) in the > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules directory. So I also had to remove this > directory. Then, the binaries has gone to search for modules in the > /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules directory. Works here. I have both 32 bit and 64 bit modules installed and get : (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib64/modules" > > So i would like to know if it is possible to compile XFree 86 twice : > one for 32 bits libraries (by adding the "-m32" flag to compilation > command) and on for 64 bits librairies. Then, I want all binaries to be BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS="-m32 " should do. > compile in 64 bits, but they must looking for modules inside the > /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules ... Right. > > I think that my problem will be the same for a lot of people that have > such architecture, as many commercial softwares are working in 32 bits > but are not planning to build their softwares for 64 bits architecture. > So we will have to have both 32 bits and 64 binaries ... > You can run 32 bit clients on 64bit Xservers. Egbert. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
