On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Benjamin Weaver
<benjamin.weaver@classics.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Sorry, guys, for wasting bandwidth on this! You guys gave just the answer I
> wanted to hear. Sounds like there aren't any problems.
>
> Not knowing about such things, I was scared by the following quote. Perhaps
> binaries do not need to be compiled as 64 bit binaries on a 64 bit machine? Or
> perhaps it's way out of date (2004) or simply wrong.
Distro support for 64-bit x86 in 2004 was light-years behind where it
is now. A lot of stuff was hard to get working back then. Now almost
everything basically Just Works.
-Doug
