From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: add etc/PROBLEMS entry for building 32-bit exe on 64-bit system Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:17:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168460298 19375 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2007 20:18:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:18:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 10 21:18:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H4jtl-0008Bg-N8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:18:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4jtl-0002ND-BT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:18:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4jtY-0002Ld-KN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:18:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4jtX-0002Kt-Mv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:18:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4jtX-0002Kj-Jj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:17:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H4jtX-0004sM-Ck for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:17:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1H4jt2-0006e6-4v; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:17:28 -0500 Original-To: Stefan Monnier X-Spook: $400 million in gold bullion AIMSX Arnett Soviet Forte X-Ran: C3[]Y!?7>C=wj5,~\&FahJad+3!gs?mMQb7u()#iuU(a:y@RzgZ3!K)01t"4XCVi,d2G44 X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:65127 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > - once on my work machine, which is running a version of Fedora for > amd64 and where some of the 32bit libs are indeed missing. There's > still plenty of libs to build Emacs. [my reply is off-topic for Emacs, I think] In RHEL 4, there is no package that provides 32-bit devel files for: libasound, libjpeg, libtiff, libungif, libpng, etc. So you can build a 32-bit Emacs, but it is missing a lot of optional support. The non-devel packages provide libfoo.so.VERSION in 32- and 64-bit forms, but the symlink libfoo.so (sans version) gets relegated to the devel package, which only exists in x86_64 form, most of the time. Of course, one can trivially add the necessary 32-bit symlink, but it certainly gave me the impression one is only supposed to be able to _run_ 32-bit apps, not _compile_ them. Having said that, I've been told more 32-bit devel packages will feature in RHEL5.