<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 4:43 PM Tom Sullivan <<a href="mailto:info@beforgiven.info">info@beforgiven.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Y'all:<br>
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I finally successfully brought up a Fedora VM.<br>
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General warning: Do NOT install LXDE - it will trash your ability to <br>
highlight text or copy/paste. XFCE is fine.<br>
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Anyway, I tried multiple times to compile and run:<br>
Sword - worked fine as a test - there is a current rpm.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I package 1.8.1 combined with a major patch from Jaak that changes all the __u64 integers to std::uint64_t values, because Sword does not compile on PPC64LE due to errors regarding the __u64 type definition. However, std::uint64_t values are consistent across the types (i.e. Sword doesn't attempt to redefine them). Thus, you have the latest release available in Fedora.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Bibletime - could not compile - rpm is still version 2<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>2.11 is still the latest. 3.0 is still in RC/preview. Fedora discourages shipping RPMs of RC/beta software unless it's a product (like GMail was for years) that is a perpetual beta. So this RPM is still up to date. As soon as 3.0 final lands, I'll build the RPMs for it.<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Xiphos - Could compile, had to copy *.so in order to run, acted <br>
strangely and did not show all modules. - rpm is still version 4.1<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Which *.so did you have to copy, from where to where? Also, 4.2.1 is in the updates-testing repository. Fedora requires all package updates for a released version (Fedora 31 or 32 is probably what you're running, based on this) to land in an "updates-testing" repository for at least 7 days or until it has been tested as working by at least 3 different people before they get moved to the standard repositories. You can install the new version by "dnf install --enablerepo=updates-testing xiphos" if you want to give feedback on the new package. For something like Xiphos I rarely get any test feedback, so it lands automatically 7 days after I issue the build. So in 6-7 days you'll see 4.2.1 make it to the stable repo. It's already in Rawhide (Fedora's analogue to Debian Testing), since that is not a gated, stable release.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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This is NOT a call for assistance. I will await suitable rpm files from <br>
any source. Monkeying around with that which is over my head is a waste <br>
of everybody's time, mine and yours.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sword and BibleTime is already at latest, and Xiphos can be pulled from updates-testing as I mention above or you can wait < 1 week's time and you'll have it as long as you're working on Fedora 31 or later. Thanks for giving it a gander!<br></div><div><br></div><div>--Greg<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Many thanks.<br>
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Tom<br>
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Tom Sullivan<br>
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On 5/14/20 4:06 AM, Dominique Corbex wrote:<br>
> On Wed, 13 May 2020 17:27:43 -0400<br>
> Tom Sullivan <<a href="mailto:info@beforgiven.info" target="_blank">info@beforgiven.info</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
>> The repositories do not contain the latest versions. For example, the<br>
>> Debian Buster repository presents Xiphos 4.1, not the latest 4.2.<br>
> <br>
> I was a long time Debian user, I switched to Fedora for that reason.<br>
> <br>
> On Fedora, (many thanks to Greg) you have all the latest<br>
> frontend/backend software, and tools/bindings you need for building<br>
> your own modules and so on. Boring time spent trying to build<br>
> xiphos/sword/whateverelse from scratch is history.<br>
> <br>
> I don't have any regrets. IMHO Every serious Crosswire user should run<br>
> Fedora.<br>
> <br>
> Dom<br>
> <br>
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