AMD64 ~ x86?

[eyeL]

Ok, I have an AMD64 (see my signature) but i've compiled everything using x86, in my keywords, in my package, all that jazz.

With this hurt my performance? if so, how would I go about changing it without completely reinstalling?
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gentoo 2005.1 [lazy] - gcc 4.1.1

[magic919]

OK, I have 32 bit and 64 bit (see my signature).

I asked a similar question a while back and only got a reinstall suggestion.

I'll tag along here and see if we get a better reply.

Even allowing for the fact a few packages would surely break or be blocked we must be able to run a few commands, emerge for 3-4 days and get it done.

We'll see.

[eyeL]

yeah, hopefully someone will have something.

I'm thinking I just have to change keywords to amd64?

Not sure.
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gentoo 2005.1 [lazy] - gcc 4.1.1

[sebv]

If you have compile with x86_64 options and you define ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to x86...

I'm not sure that x86,amd64 keywsords realy impact the compilation process on all package (maybe there is exception) but just say if the package run or not (I think)

So maybe the only problem you could have is that some package will install and won't realy work

Try to check if your package are compile in 64bit
One mean to do this is to launch a program, to get his pid (with "ps aux") and to cat the /proc/{pid}/maps file, you can see if he links on lib64 or not.

I think there is a better mean to do this but...

If it's good maybe you can try to change your keyword from x86 to amd64, and try to do "emerge -p --newuse world"
maybe it work, if not maybe you can do an update, emerge will check all package and say somthing if you installed packages for x86 only.

But i'm not sure, put your data in security before doing this.
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[drescherjm]

[adsmith]

well, I bet you could do it with crossdev, but figuring out how to build a complate and clean toolchain in the wrong environment is probably harder than just grabbing an install-CD