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On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:33:55AM -0700, schwern@pobox.com wrote: > My usual way to run Configure when I want 64bit ints is to just answer > yes to all the questions about them, even 64bitall, without worrying what > my actual architecture could support because Configure would correct me. > > *** You have chosen a maximally 64-bit build, but your pointers are only > *** are only 4 bytes wide, disabling maximal 64-bitness. > > 5.8.1 now just dies. > > *** You have chosen a maximally 64-bit build, > *** but your pointers are only 4 bytes wide. > *** Please rerun Configure without -Duse64bitall. > *** Since you have quads, you could possibly try with -Duse64bitint. > *** Cannot continue, aborting. > > Well that's less than helpful. > > 19272, 19273 and 19278 seemed to have caused this. Some reason why the > fallback won't work anymore? IIRC, Jarkko made the call that it was better to let people know if what they asked for isn't available. I agree. There was talk of a "use 64 bits if possible" option, don't recall the results.Thread Previous | Thread Next