Re: Bug#225449: wxwindows2.4: problems with ia64
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:21:24PM +0100, Torsten Werner wrote:
> We have currently a problem with wxwindows2.4 on ia64. All the binaries
> are compiled with
>
> off_t == long long
>
> which is wrong IMHO. You can see it after installing libwxgtk2.4:
>
> $ nm -D /usr/lib/libwx_gtk-2.4.so.0 | c++filt | grep wxFile::Read
> 000000000052f380 T wxFile::Read(void*, long long)
>
> The binaries are compiled with the following CFLAGS:
>
> $ wx-config --cflags
> -I/usr/lib/wx/include/gtk-2.4 -DGTK_NO_CHECK_CASTS -D__WXGTK__
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGE_FILES
>
> The arguments '-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGE_FILES' are useless on
> ia64 but should not hurt. Now I have tried to recompile audacity which
> depends on wxwindows and 'off_t' is now 'long' only which means that it
> cannot be linked with wxwindows because C++ has strong type checking.
> After recompiling wxwindows it has 'off_t == long' too! I compiled a
> small C++ code fragment the uses 'off_t' and that compiles to 'long' too
> (not 'long long').
>
> My questions are now:
>
> 1. Is 'off_t == long long' really wrong on ia64 as I assume?
>
> 2. Do we need to recompile wxwindow2.4 for ia64 and all packages that
> depend on it?
I would say that audacity should be compiled with LFS support too.
Suppose on x86 it attempts to deal with a file sized more than 2GB?
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