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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2016-01-31 16:19:36 +0000
committerBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2016-01-31 16:19:36 +0000
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name of the target triplet is to run the <command>config.guess</command>
script that comes with the source for many packages. Unpack the Binutils
sources and run the script: <userinput>./config.guess</userinput> and note
- the output. For example, for a modern 32-bit Intel processor the
- output will likely be <emphasis>i686-pc-linux-gnu</emphasis>.</para>
+ the output. For example, for a 32-bit Intel processor the
+ output will be <emphasis>i686-pc-linux-gnu</emphasis>. On a 64-bit
+ system it will be <emphasis>x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</emphasis>.</para>
<para>Also be aware of the name of the platform's dynamic linker, often
referred to as the dynamic loader (not to be confused with the standard
linker <command>ld</command> that is part of Binutils). The dynamic linker
provided by Glibc finds and loads the shared libraries needed by a program,
prepares the program to run, and then runs it. The name of the dynamic
- linker for a 32-bit Intel machine will be
- <filename class="libraryfile">ld-linux.so.2</filename>.
- A sure-fire way to determine the name of the dynamic linker is to
- inspect a random binary from the host system by running:
- <userinput>readelf -l &lt;name of binary&gt; | grep interpreter</userinput>
- and noting the output. The authoritative reference covering all platforms
- is in the <filename>shlib-versions</filename> file in the root of the Glibc
- source tree.</para>
+ linker for a 32-bit Intel machine will be <filename
+ class="libraryfile">ld-linux.so.2</filename> (<filename
+ class="libraryfile">ld-linux-x86-64.so.2</filename> for 64-bit systems). A
+ sure-fire way to determine the name of the dynamic linker is to inspect a
+ random binary from the host system by running: <userinput>readelf -l
+ &lt;name of binary&gt; | grep interpreter</userinput> and noting the
+ output. The authoritative reference covering all platforms is in the
+ <filename>shlib-versions</filename> file in the root of the Glibc source
+ tree.</para>
</note>
<para>Some key technical points of how the <xref