Am I 32-bit, or 64-bit?

Michael ODonnell michael.odonnell at comcast.net
Thu Apr 5 10:29:23 EDT 2012



It'd take some pretty bizarre build errors to generate a kernel
that describes itself as x86_64 when it isn't.  Therefore,
(assuming you're really running in the filesystem that your x86
system was based on) what's likely happening is that the exec()
machinery that allows mixed use of x86 and x86_64 binaries is
doing its thing and it wasn't until the Chrome installer asked
the kernel which flavor it is and then started looking for the
(absent) x86_64 loader and libraries that you even noticed.

BTW, for recent kernel sources I think the value you wanted to
use for ARCH is i686 rather than i386, even though the latter
may be what the "arch" command reports.



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