Re: 64 bit support

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Peter O'Gorman wrote:

> Okay, I've had a peek at what we've got for 64 bit support currently, and it 
> is not a really good situation. Inside a macro named "_LT_AC_LOCK" we have 
> tests for various 64 bit architectures that then change the value of LD. 
> Unfortunately, it looks like the link line actually uses the value of CC 
> rather than LD, so I don't think this code has much effect.

A while back I adjusted things so that GCC -m options like -m64 are 
preserved, and unfortunately, that is about as good as it currently 
gets. :-(

I do build 64-bit apps regularly, but only as a simple build.

Bob
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