On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:15:59 -0700 (MST)
"William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209" <wacker(a)octothorp.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Years ago, I successfully built an i686 kernel using a machine running
the x86_64 distro. The kernel seemed to run fine. The only trouble I
found was when I tried to build an external module, the build failed. It
turned out that the kernel-devel package had a binary called genksyms.
That was still being built as an elf64 binary. I can no longer find that
binary, so I believe it's now OK to build all my packages for i686 and
x86_64 at once on an x86_64 machine. Is this recommended? If not, why
not?
It should work fine. It does with the base kernel from
kernel.org and I
do this all the time.
Alan