[Clfs-dev] Pure 64

[Ken Moffat]

On 30 July 2010 01:37, Grail Dane <grail69 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys
> Just curious about building a pure 64 system and why in Chapter 10 only some
> of the compiled programs use the -m64 setting?
> I have also been looking at CBLFS and noticed that a number of there
> programs when compiling use:
> CC="gcc ${BUILD64}"
> Is it just that all programs compiled after gcc in chapter 10 do not support
> this feature?
> Cheers
> grail

If you only have a 64-bit toolchain, passing -m64 is redundant.
Does no harm, and can make the book easier to maintain across
different architectures, but is not required.

ĸen
-- 
After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!"