Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64
Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Raul Miller (moth@debian.org) wrote:
>> > > The no-cost linux downloads from kx.com and jsoftware.com are the ones
>> > > I'm most concerned about (in that order).
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:06:23PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> > Alright, perhaps we can get some of the debian-amd64 folks to give it a
>> > whirl and see if they can't figure something out about it. Possibly
>> > even help find a way to make them run. I may try and look at these
>> > tommorow myself too.
>> >
>> > How about it folks?
>>
>> Note that these are binaries, so porting them is out. However, they
>> run fine on 32bit intel LSB systems.
>
> Well, certainly, I had assumed that to be the case.
>
>> If you're going to this effort anyways: there's a known bug in
>> k (mentioned in the release notes, but possible to overlook).
>> The workaround is to turn on backing store in the x server.
>
> Hmm, alright.
>
>> Final note: there's a gpl'd version of a precursor to k (by the same
>> author) at www.aplusdev.org. It's no where near as efficient, nor as
>> capable, and I'll package it up eventually if no one else gets around to
>> it, but that might be more to someone's taste. [It's four times as big,
>> an order of magnitude slower, and way less functional, and requires a
>> special font to be useful at all, so you have to run it in an x terminal
>> with that font, just to read the code. But the license is right.]
>
> That's, erm, interesting. My intent wasn't to try to actually port the
> package but just try to get the binary running using ia32-libs. Then,
> if that didn't work right off, to try to figure out what libraries it's
> missing (if that's the case) or what the problem is in general. The
> next step would be to see if we can then resolve those problems. I have
> to admit that I didn't realize one of the binaries had X calls... I
> expect that will make it more difficult. Perhaps I missed it, but were
> there X calls in the function list you provided previously?
>
> Stephen
mrvn@dual:~% ls /emul/ia32-linux/usr/X11R6/lib
X11/ libXTrap.so.6@ libXi.so.6.0 libXt.so.6@
libGL.so.1@ libXTrap.so.6.4 libXmu.so.6@ libXt.so.6.0
libGL.so.1.2 libXaw.so.7@ libXmu.so.6.2 libXtst.so.6@
libGLU.so.1@ libXaw.so.7.0 libXmuu.so.1@ libXtst.so.6.1
libGLU.so.1.3 libXaw3d.so.6@ libXmuu.so.1.0 libdps.so.1@
libICE.so.6@ libXaw3d.so.6.1 libXp.so.6@ libdps.so.1.0
libICE.so.6.3 libXext.so.6@ libXp.so.6.2 libdpstk.so.1@
libSM.so.6@ libXext.so.6.4 libXpm.so.4@ libdpstk.so.1.0
libSM.so.6.0 libXft.so.1@ libXpm.so.4.11 libpsres.so.1@
libX11.so.6@ libXft.so.1.1 libXrandr.so.2@ libpsres.so.1.0
libX11.so.6.2 libXi.so.6@ libXrandr.so.2.0
MfG
Goswin
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