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From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Migration from single to dual core
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:47:52
Message-Id: 7bef1f890801022041p6fe3d506i6670b71302c39b1@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Migration from single to dual core by Florian Philipp
1 I apologize: it isn't clear from my message, that I want to migrate
2 from a single core AMD 64 to a dual core AMD 64X2 processor. I only
3 intended to comment obtusely about 64 vs 32 bits, but I think I muffed
4 that.
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6 Your comment about the -CFLAGS was pertinent. Thank you.
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8 Alan
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10 On Jan 3, 2008 1:09 AM, Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote:
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12 > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 00:14 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote:
13 >
14 > > So it's back to the old threads about whether 64 bits is superior to
15 > > 32, etc. My question now is, given that the system is working damned
16 > > well now, what is the best way to handle this: recompile everything?
17 > > Should I recompile gcc and the libraries and all compilers.
18 > >
19 >
20 > In case I didn't understand you correctly in my first response and you
21 > really want to migrate from 64bit to 32 or vice versa, then I must say,
22 > that's not possible without a full reinstall.
23 >
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28 Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan lngndvs@×××××.com
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30 "It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..."
31 ---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man
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