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64 bit Kernel does not run on iMac Intel

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• Subject: [mg80022] 64 bit Kernel does not run on iMac Intel
• From: Bert Kachler <bkachler at hotmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:45:45 -0400 (EDT)

Hello,

I just obtained Mathematica 6.0.1 for MacOSX and
tried it out. For reasons explained in the FAQ,
the default kernel is a universal 32 bit binary,
and this works fine. Also included is a 64 bit kernel
for OSX/Intel, and it is also explained how to
substitute it.

However, it does not work, there seems to be
a problem with the architecture (Mac OSX version 10.4.10).
When running the MathKernel64 on the command line, it gives the 
following error:

iMac.local:MacOS => MathKernel64
tcsh: MathKernel64: Bad CPU type in executable.


lipo tells me:

iMac.local:MacOS => lipo -detailed_info MathKernel64
input file MathKernel64 is not a fat file
Non-fat file: MathKernel64 is architecture: x86_64

while for the (universal) 32bit Kernel it says:

iMac.local:MacOS => lipo -detailed_info MathKernel
Fat header in: MathKernel
fat_magic 0xcafebabe
nfat_arch 2
architecture ppc
     cputype CPU_TYPE_POWERPC
     cpusubtype CPU_SUBTYPE_POWERPC_ALL
     offset 4096
     size 21676740
     align 2^12 (4096)
architecture i386
     cputype CPU_TYPE_I386
     cpusubtype CPU_SUBTYPE_I386_ALL
     offset 21684224
     size 25235608
     align 2^12 (4096)


So there seems to be an error in the architecture specification.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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