[Kolab-devel] x86_64

[Marcus Hüwe]

Hi,

On 2006-12-05 15:40:22 +0000, Stéphane Konstantaropoulos wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We are going to set up Kolab on new servers here, running 64 bit 
> distributions, I still have not been able to build Kolab (latest 2.1) for 64 
> bit. Some perl packages that contain x86 asm still configure themselves to 
> compile for x86, which generates errors.
> 
> Mind you, it all builds fine apparently but there are plenty of things missing 
> (mostly crypto for perl) and nothing works... Only a few packages are 
> affected.
> 
> Would it help if I filed a detailed report here?
> 
Of course it is worth to file a bug!
Lot's of developers don't care about x86_64 because the don't have such
machines.. so the poor packagers have to fix the packages:)

> People often say that it is useless to use 64bit sofware, from my experience 
> 64bit with Linux feels much more reactive, mostly on servers. So I'd be 
> really pleased if Kolab built on 64bit by the time we deploy it here.
> 
> Is it a kolab issue or more an OpenPKG issue?

It depends on the package or maybe you can file a bug upstream..


Marcus