[OpenIndiana-discuss] Switch ARCH to 64-bit

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 6:51 PM Stephan Althaus <
Stephan.Althaus at duedinghausen.eu> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> The issue ist that Joyents pkgsrc's bootstrap
> does not recognize the system as 64bit
> and therefore sticks to 32 bit (?).
>

As I recall  isainfo -k is called to detect this.


> Thanks that you clarifed my system is 64 bit.
>
> I think i have to ask the people at pgsrc at joyent then..
> i hope this weekend i can try this on a fresh install on a vm with
> 2018.10 :-)
>

Ask jperkin on #illumos if he is present.


> Thanks!
>

You are welcome!

>
> On 26.10.18 18:42, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 6:29 PM Stephan Althaus <
> > Stephan.Althaus at duedinghausen.eu> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> root at oi:/home/steven$ isainfo -k
> >> amd64
> >>
> > Therefore you are running the 64-bit kernel, what is the exact issue?
> >
> > i386pc can be either 32-bit or 64-bit, the actual bitness is deduced from
> > isainfo, and 32-bit binaries run on 64-bit kernel (that's why we deliver
> > both versions for libraries).
> >
> >>
> >> On 26.10.18 17:55, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 5:51 PM Stephan Althaus <
> >>> Stephan.Althaus at duedinghausen.eu> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> While i am experimenting with pkgsrc
> >>>> i stumbled over the fact, that my machine is only 32bit,
> >>>> whereas the ELF header of some brogs shows 64bt
> >>>>
> >>>> i'm confused
> >>>>
> >>>> while bmake in net/nmap
> >>>>
> >>>> pkg_add: SunOS/x86_64 5.11 (pkg) vs. SunOS/i386 5.11 (this host)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> BUT programs are 64bit
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> root at oi:/tank/pkgsrc/pkgsrc/net/nmap# elfdump -e `which mc`
> >>>> ELF Header
> >>>>      ei_magic:   { 0x7f, E, L, F }
> >>>>      ei_class:   ELFCLASS64          ei_data:       ELFDATA2LSB
> >>>>      ei_osabi:   ELFOSABI_SOLARIS    ei_abiversion: EAV_SUNW_CURRENT
> >>>>      e_machine:  EM_AMD64            e_version:     EV_CURRENT
> >>>>      e_type:     ET_EXEC
> >>>>      e_flags:                     0
> >>>>      e_entry:              0x440230  e_ehsize:     64  e_shstrndx: 33
> >>>>      e_shoff:              0x1436c0  e_shentsize:  64  e_shnum: 34
> >>>>      e_phoff:                  0x40  e_phentsize:  56  e_phnum:     7
> >>>> root at oi:/tank/pkgsrc/pkgsrc/net/nmap#
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Finally, i would like to switch to 64bit - if theres something to
> >> swittch..
> >>> What does isainfo -k report?
> >>>
> >>>> Thanks for any hints,
> >>>> Stephan
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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