Re: [RP] patch to allow ratpoison to build on amd64 (opteron/athlon64)

[Caleb Shay]

twb wrote:

> You have my humble apologies.  I guess I should learn that RP users
> are of a higher calibre than redhat newbies. :-)

I can't decide if that is sarcasm or just funny.  Either way, no offense 
taken.

> I paid the extra $15 for intel over amd (32bit, mind) to avoid exactly
> such problems.  If I may ask, does this sort of thing happen often?
> -trent

This is the first time I've been hit with this specific problem.  There 
are other problems with apps that aren't 64-bit clean, but that would 
happen regardless of which 64-bit solution I went with.  As far as 
paying the premium, $15 is an acceptable difference to pay for 
convenience, but have you looked at the difference in price between the 
Athlon64 and the Itanium2?  It's a _little_ bit more than that.

AMD Athlon64 3200+: $600 at CompUseless
Intel 1GHz Itanium 2: $7873 online !!!!!!


I'm just not willing to pay that kind of premium for a _slower_ 
processor.  The AMD solution lets me run gcc in multilib mode too, so I 
can use both 64 and 32 bit apps at the same time just by having */lib32 
and */lib64 (though it defaults to 64-bit unless I specify -m32 when 
compiling), and without the 32-bit emulation overhead that Itanic 
suffers from.

Cheers,

Caleb

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