B. Stia wrote:
Question: Am running an AMD 64 processor. There are still not all programs that are 64 bit. I know that the system will handle 32 bit stuff but I was wondering if an src file can be compiled to 64 bit.
Ex: Tonight I went to download smart at Guru's site. There were no 64 bit versions, only i686 and src's. I hesitated to download either because I didn't know if either of them would work without problems. You could always try and see, but be prepared to install quite a few more devel packages. Try this (as root if you are not set up to build rpm packages as a normal user), rpmbuild --rebuild --target=x86_64 <packagename>.src. If it works, you can find your new shiny rpm in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64. HTH
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