[Nix-dev] CPU type misdetection

[Marc Weber]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:42:10PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Recently, I was told that the `lm' flag (for "long mode") in
> /proc/cpuinfo roughly means "x86-64".  My laptop has an Intel Core 2
> Duo, which has this flags, and really is "x86-64".  However, to Nix, my
> system is `i686-linux' although it could/should be `x86_64-linux'.
> 
> Consequently, GNU `config.guess' returns `i686-pc-linux-gnu' because I
> only have an i686 tool chain.
> 
> I'm not sure where the initial misconfiguration occurred, but it looks
> like there's room for improvement here.  Ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo'.

I'm not sure..
But AFAIK its no problem to run an i686 system on a x68-64 system.
So if you've used the i686 installation cd/dvd of nixos that's what I'd
expect. Which one have you used to setup your system? Are you running
nixos or nix only?

Marc