Re: 32bit system on 64bit kernel

[Richard Stallman]

    > So I wonder what is going on with the amdx86-64 configuration:
    > why someone else expected it to have 64-bit longs, while Stefan's
    > machine uses 32-bit longs.

    I think because he's using a 64-bit kernel, but 32-bit libraries etc (so
    programs like Emacs use a 32-bit ABI) -- and "uname" reports information
    from the kernel.

There are two possible ways to fix for now:

1. Make a different configuration, perhaps amdx86-32.
configure would have to tell which to use.

2. Make that particular configuration conditionally define
BITS_PER_LONG, based perhaps on info that configure would have to
collect.

After the release we could perhaps move to having configure
always determine BITS_PER_LONG.