Fedora 8 on PS3: ppc or ppc64?

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Mon Feb 25 22:01:06 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 21:42 +0000, Andrea wrote:
> Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 21:21 +0000, Andrea wrote:
> >> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > iirc, there are a few userspace things where you really actually do want
> > the ppc64 version. I believe at least gdb and crash were on that list.
> > 32-bit versions won't know what to do when analyzing 64-bit bits.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I agree, but it is not working anyway.
> I would like to have gdb.32 and gdb.64 but I can only have one of them.

Why? gdb.ppc64 can debug both 32-bit and 64-bit stuff. Go with just the
64-bit one.

> When they are both installed, gdb.64 disappears...

Remove the 32-bit one. Reinstall the 64-bit one, if need be. I'm a bit
fuzzy on the details of how that all works w/overlapping binaries...


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Jarod Wilson
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