[sword-devel] Xiphos 4.0.3

[Fred Smith]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:04:18AM -0500, Greg Hellings wrote:
> Drat, I forgot to build the epel RPMs for this build. I'm kicking off
> the build right now. Looks like biblesync never made it into EPEL-7
> either, so I'll push both of them into circulation here in short
> order, if possible.
> 
> --Greg

Greg, what's the chances you could build Xiphos 4.x.x for EL6?

I have been unable to do it (no longer recall the specifics, but it
had to do, of course, with dependencies) and am hoping someone with
more experience building things for Fedora and ELx might succeed
where I fail.

thanks!

Fred

> 
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Fred Smith
> <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 11:04:40PM -0400, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
> >>    For those unaware: Peter von Kaehne bumped sideways into a nasty,
> >>    crash-inducing Xiphos limitation related to the maximum count of
> >>    language groups that can be handled at one time.  This was caused by a
> >>    new repository holding large numbers of new Bible modules, overrunning
> >>    this limitation.
> >>    Due to the probability that it will be mostly new users who could be
> >>    harmed by this flaw, I've built and released Xiphos 4.0.3.  A near-term
> >>    future release will re-factor the code in question for better
> >>    generality, but this is a release with an immediate survivability fix.
> >>    Unofficial Fedora and official Win32/64 builds are already present.
> >>    Package builders are asked to pick up the .tar.gz and see to producing
> >>    their respective official builds.
> >>    [1]https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomesword/files/Xiphos/4.0.3/
> >>    --karl
> >>
> >> References
> >>
> >>    1. https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomesword/files/Xiphos/4.0.3/
> >
> >
> > Karl:
> >
> > I've built 4.0.3 on/for Centos-7 x86-64, both gtk2 and gtk3 packages.
> > Installed the gtk3 version here and it successfully access the giant
> > list of modules at ebible. too bad I don't have any personal use for
> > all those languages! :(
> >
> > Would you like me to upload them to you (as I did with the 4.0.2 RPMs)?
> >
> > Fred
> >
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