Re: [sleuthkit-users] Sleuthkit & Autopsy on AMD64

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On 9/4-2004, at 16.55, Paul Stillwell wrote:

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> Just as a follow up ...
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> 	I compiled TSK 1.68 (static) on a suse 9.0 32 bit system and=20
> transferred the
> binaries over to the Mandrake 9.2 AMD64 system, and then ran make for=20=

> Autopsy
> 2.0 on the AMD64 system pointing to the transferred files.  It all=20
> seems to
> work so far without issues.  The logic behind this?  AMD64 systems are
> supposed to be 32bit binary compatible... so are the O/S's that run on
> them... so far, it seems to hold true :-)
>
> If anyone knows of any issues I may introduce by doing this, please=20
> let me
> know.
>

Even though it is nice to have this confirmed you should IMHO
think more about what you DO than just guessing and throwing out
wild speculations, questions and spreading what could be FUD about=20
autopsy
- - people might just remember "sleuthkit & AMD64 =3D problems" the
Internet is a bitch that way ;-)

Please read this the right way and dont take the criticism to hard ...


I recently bought an Athlon64 system to run OpenBSD, knowing that
OpenBSD can run both as amd64 or the GENERIC i386 binaries
- - this works as expected, this IS one of the main reasons to buy this,
so leave out the "supposed to be" it IS compatible



If I decide to experiment with software on amd64 I would RATHER
assume that the operating system is doing "strange stuff" than
thinking that I have discovered problems with the software at hand.

Especially "good stuff" like Autopsy and TASK which REALLY rocks
and works great on multiple platforms.


I for one would EXPECT small problems and quirks compiling software
on amd64 as this is a rather new platform. So I would NOT start
using this for production before I had confirmed that I knew how
to fix small compile problems.

On a sidenote I am willing to donate $100 or a bit more for Brian to
get amd64 platform to test on
Brian: can you get a price on a CPU and motherboard for you to play=20
with?

Best regards

Henrik

PS I haven't actually tried autopsy and sleuthkit on my amd64 yet, but
expect them to behave on my OpenBSD ;-)




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