64bit or not ?

[Youssef Ghorbal]

It was not meant to be a "fair" reflexion.
It was meant to be just a an experience feedback...

Back to this times (2 years ago) my problem was a matter of a bad (or  
missing) 64bit support in "source packages" (./configure and  
Makefiles) Things, I hope, have been fixed since...

Regards,
Youssef  Ghorbal
Netplus Communiction
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On Jan 22, 2008, at 4:57 PM, John Hodrien wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Youssef Ghorbal wrote:
>
>> 	As far as you're using distribution packages (deb, rpms and so) for
>> software you are installing on 64bit machines every thing is  
>> allright.
>> 	But, if you compile your own softs from sources, you are going to
>> regret 64bits systems with their /lib and /lib64 directories. Some
>> libriairies are in the first and others are in the second and you are
>> going to patch your ./configure and your Makefiles... I tried to
>> compile PHP (with almost all extentions) on a RHEL EM64T system and
>> didn't succeeded.
>
> Is that *really* a fair reflection of people's experience of  
> 64bit?  We've run
> systems 64bit as and when it's been required, and users seem to  
> have coped
> just fine with a split architecture distribution.  The distinction  
> between 32
> and 64 is simpler than between o32,n32,n64 with IRIX.
>
> jh
>
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