G5 arch keyword PPC or PPC64?

mrbig4545 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 124

I have a New(ish) iMac G5 (not the one with the camera, the one before that one) now im wondering should i compile as PPC or PPC64, the reason i ask is that i currently use PPC64 and loads of stuff is unavailable or just doesn't work, so im wondering if using regular PPC as the arch keyword would be a better option, I mean are there any bonuses with using PPC64, as i no that Mac Os X is only 32bit with 64bit extensions. What do you reckon? Is it worth a try or should i just hang on till there is better PPC64 support?

Thank you

Mark

davidgurvich · Veteran Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 1063

Go with ppc. You won't notice anything for most practical purposes.

AaronPPC · Guru Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 522 Location: Tucson, AZ

After I read mrbig's question, I immediately wondered if it would be practical and worth the trouble of using PPC64 for the everyday stuff and use a chroot 32-bit environment for the other stuff like the AMD64 people used to do.
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jaspal kallar · Apprentice Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 194 Location: Sweden

Lurking around on "#gentoo-ppc64" then I gather that 64 bit is the way to go although some packages (eg Openoffice and firefox) are not going to compile with 64 bit ppc. However, I gather one can have pure 64 bit ppc and multilib (which allows 32 bit ppc packages to reside with 64bit pcc). Again, I would recommend getting onto "#gentoo-ppc64" to see how far this multilib has come.

I have 32 bit ppc userland (need firefox and openoffice since looking for jobs) and a 64 bit ppc kernel (since that was the only way I could get my first generation powermac G5's onboard sound to work).

Some people on "#gentoo-ppc64" also have 64 bit ppc and chroot 32-bit environment.

/Jaspal.