Hello Maurice!

23 Jun 06 20:12, Maurice Kinal wrote to Gert Koefoed Andersen:

 MK> I used 32-bit libs to compile husky stuff.

why ?

 MK> I don't think it is safe to compile as pure 64-bit.

Tobias Ernst says all husky is 64bit clean, but this may have changed ?

 MK> Also I didn't put any of the husky libs on the system and instead have 
 MK> them running and linked in it's own enviroment.

show me :-)

 MK> Is your system multilib capable?

on gentoo all 64bit gcc is multilib unless USE="-multilib"

 MK> If not then there will be problems especially with zipped files and the 
 MK> such.

prove this, since i should see this problem as mail hoster when amavisd
unpacks zipped mail attachments, i still have to see problems in that
content

 MK> I also built a 32-bit unzip in the Fido enviroment just to keep the 
 MK> DOS-think people happy but kept the outbound pkts as raw ftn format just 
 MK> to play it safe.

always good :-)

 MK> Bottomline is that 16-bit apps are a real bugger to port to a pure 
 MK> 64-bit system.  Much easier to do to 32-bit then to 64-bit.

thats why DOSBOX is good :-)

 MK> Life is good,

no 64bit is life :-)

 Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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