building kerberos on 64 bit processor

[Heilke, Rainer]

Or you can do it this way. :-)  We've just found it generally easier
(and more reliable/definitive when building) to make sure it's a fully
64bit gcc.

Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kerberos-bounces at mit.edu 
> [mailto:kerberos-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Raeburn
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 3:22 PM
> To: 'kerberos at mit.edu'
> Subject: Re: building kerberos on 64 bit processor
> 
> 
> On May 9, 2005, at 16:55, Heilke, Rainer wrote:
> > Since you're on Linux, I would add that gcc will need to be built as
> > 64bit. Otherwise, it may still build Kerberos as 32bit, 
> because it's 
> > all
> > (your version of) gcc knows.
> 
> If it is a system that has a 32-bit mode and the compiler defaults to 
> 32-bit mode (the original poster didn't say *what* kind of 64-bit 
> system it is), then at least for some architectures it should be 
> sufficient to give gcc the right option(s) to generate 64-bit code.  
> There does seem to be a bug in our current release where the CFLAGS 
> value specified at configure time isn't always passed to all 
> invocations of the compiler, so I'd recommend passing the option via 
> CC, kind of like this command that should build a 64-bit build on 
> Solaris:
> 
>    $ ./configure --prefix=... CC='gcc -m64'
> 
> Ken
> 
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