[sword-devel] 64 bit operating system support?
Fred Smith
fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Mon Jan 18 09:58:54 MST 2016
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 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.
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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