[sword-devel] 64 bit operating system support?
DM Smith
dmsmith at crosswire.org
Mon Jan 18 10:06:52 MST 2016
You posted it to the list. :)
> On Jan 18, 2016, at 11:58 AM, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:19:24AM -0600, Greg Hellings wrote:
>> I don't have access to a GUI machine with Cent installed at the
>> moment. I haven't noticed an issue with the GTK3 build of Xiphos, but
>> I only do a very cursory check of the builds.
>>
>> There are both xiphos-gtk2 and xiphos-gtk3 builds in EPEL7 at the
>> moment, and you should be able to install them side-by-side. This is
>> at Karl's request, and is something I have to keep battling the other
>> Xiphos packagers for in the Fedora/EPEL build system. Sometimes
>> someone at RedHat goes on a rampage to destroy all GTK2 packages from
>> places where upstream supports GTK3 and I have to then restore the
>> dual build.
>
> those who seek "purity" sometimes become rather over-zealous! :)
>
> FYI, in case you care, there is a short video at
> users.rcn.com/fredricksmith/xiphos/xiphos-flash.ogv <http://users.rcn.com/fredricksmith/xiphos/xiphos-flash.ogv> that illustrates
> the issue.
>
> I sent this directly to you, not posted to the list, because I don't
> especially want hundreds of people connecting to my pages on rcn.com <http://rcn.com/>.
>
> Fred
>>
>> --Greg
>>
>> --Greg
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Fred Smith
>> <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:05:52AM -0600, Greg Hellings wrote:
>>>> Fred,
>>>>
>>>> Please tell me which parts of Xiphos are not provided in EPEL.
>>>>
>>>> yum info xiphos-gtk3
>>>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
>>>> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>>>> * base: centos.arvixe.com
>>>> * epel: fedora-epel.mirror.lstn.net
>>>> * extras: dallas.tx.mirror.xygenhosting.com
>>>> * updates: mirror.fusioncloud.co
>>>> Available Packages
>>>> Name : xiphos-gtk3
>>>> Arch : x86_64
>>>> Version : 4.0.3
>>>> Release : 1.el7
>>>>
>>>> The specific quote you were asking about is addressing the iOS client, though.
>>>>
>>>> --Greg
>>>
>>> Hi Greg!
>>>
>>> I built my own because (at the time) EPEL did not provide Xiphos 4.x,
>>> nor a compatible modern Sword library. I haven't looked recently to see
>>> if those things now are in EPEL. it may be that they now are there,
>>> mooting my need to rebuild in the future.
>>>
>>> on a different note:
>>> BTW, there is (or was) some problem in the GTK3 build of Xiphos that
>>> cause bizarre flashing on the module manager screens (don't recall if it
>>> also occurred on other screens), that Karl reported did not occur with
>>> the GTK2 build. As a result I stopped using the GTK3 build on my machines,
>>> hoping that somebody, somewhere, some day would fix GTK3. Has anyone
>>> looked at the epel3 xiphos-GTK3 build to see if it exhibits the same
>>> issue?
>>>
>>> Fred
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Fred Smith
>>>> <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 03:16:54AM -0800, David Haslam wrote:
>>>>>> Updated news from Nic.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "I believe that all apps and updates needed to be compiled for 64 bit by the
>>>>>> middle of last year."
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> FWIW, I've been compiling Xihos (and all its dependencies that aren't
>>>>> provided by Centos/epel--i.e., I've compiled Sword, lucene, biblesync)
>>>>> for Cenots 7.x (Linux) as 64-bit for some months now.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or are you referring to some other platform?
>>>>>
>>>>> Fred
>>>>>> then later he replied:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have yet to look. I gave things a try about 2 years ago and saw they
>>>>>> didn’t work out of the box. I switched back to 32-bit and haven’t looked at
>>>>>> it again since, sorry.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Having a 20 second look now, CURL will need updating (easy). clucene will
>>>>>> need updating (hopefully easy?). The Zip utilities I use need updating. The
>>>>>> HTTP server stuff I use (for MMM) needs updating.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A fresh compile when I have enabled what Apple wants me to enable generates
>>>>>> 374 warnings (perhaps more, we’d need to eliminate them to see if there are
>>>>>> still more left?) and 4 errors (in CURL because of arch issues).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looking at more of the warnings, some are from libsword itself.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ok, 2 minutes of cleaning up and . . . same warnings but only 3 errors now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yup, it will need a bit of work to make it 64-bit ready, but hopefully most
>>>>>> of the work will have been done by others in the 3rd party libs that are
>>>>>> causing issues.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> David
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/64-bit-operating-system-support-tp4655699p4655839.html
>>>>>> Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>>>>>
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