Re: [be] Bibledit 3.8 compile error under Ubuntu 9.04 (64bit only?)

[Teus Benschop]

It appears that VirtualBox runs 64 bit guests on 32 bit operating
systems provided the processor is 64 bits and has virtual capabilities.

I wasn't aware that this patch was urgently needed. In the mean time a
patch was made, details of which are in the bug report. This patch
should soon be available in the git repository.

Thanks for your patience, and keeping the things clean.

Teus.



On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 01:15 -0700, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> Teus Benschop wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the link to the description of possible shell access. I've
> > asked the Savannah administrators for such shell access. Whether 64 bit
> > machines are offered remains to be seen. Hopefully they do. Or perhaps
> > they have 64 bit machines only. And, BTW, this email is written on a 64
> > bit machine, only that the OS is 32 bits.
> 
> OK... so, as long as you have plenty of RAM too, one approach would be
> for you to use a 64bit Linux as your main OS, and run a 32bit virtual
> machine or machines for testing Bibledit in the 32bit world.  I don't
> know whether persuading you to do this would be easier or harder than
> getting access to a 64bit shell access box at Savannah :)
> 
> Meanwhile... it doesn't look like you have applied my 64bit fixup patch
> in git yet... what needs to happen before you do that?
> 
> I'm asking this because I'd like to grab the patch out of your git tree,
> and apply it to a Debian.Ubuntu package of the 3.8 release, so that when
> the next tarball comes out I can remove the patch file from the package
> source tree, and all is well.  This approach also makes it clear that
> the patch is already included "upstream" (and so is not Debian/Ubuntu
> specific, or some strange whim of the packager), and it makes sure that
> the package I create does the fixup changes *exactly* the way you, the
> "upstream" developer want them made, which may not be exactly how I did
> it when I was testing.  For example, I did not comment the changes at all :)
> 
> For anyone else interested in the details, or in the patch itself, this
> issue is Bibledit bug #27056 and so visible at
> https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?27056
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jonathan
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