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arch - x86 or x86_64?

Hi
I updated Slackware (13 x86_64) kernel to vanilla 2.6.32.12 last night. echo $ARCH gives x86_64.
After extracting to a build directory in /home/$user/ and copying a generic config to .config I build the kernel like this - perhaps I am doing something wrong?

Code:

/home/user/kernel >$ make oldconfig

/home/user/kernel >$ make menuconfig

/home/user/kernel >$ make -j7

/home/user/kernel ># make modules_install

/home/user/kernel ># make install

The last step - make install - gives this output:

Code:

sh /home/user/kernel/linux-2.6.32.12/arch/x86/boot/install.sh \

  2.6.32.12-server arch/x86/boot/bzImage \

  System.map "/boot"

Shouldn't this be ../arch/x86_64/boot/.. instead?

Nope, check the x86_64 directory, you'll see the reason, there's only a symlink in there. Either way you can run 'file' on the kernel to make sure it is 64-bit.

Quote:

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H (Post 3952287)

Nope, check the x86_64 directory, you'll see the reason, there's only a symlink in there

Thank you very much. Living and learning as I go!