On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 12:37:42 -0500, Chris Knadle wrote:

> > Why would it work with the 32bit "foreign" libraries but not with the
> > "native" 64bit ones?
> > 
> > (Same with Chris' example (armagetronad): works with the 32bit libs
> > and fails the same way with 64bit.)
> 
> This sort of reminds me of an issue I'm having the current WINE package in 
> Debian.  The wine64-bin package contains only a text file describing what's 
> necessary to install the i386 foreign architecture and then to install the 
> wine-bin:i386 package.  And then there are some problems from there because 
> of 
> the 64-bit OpenGL libs vs 32-bit ones.  I likewise haven't been able to work 
> around those issues yet (but it's been a low priority), and I have not found 
> it easy to find documentation on how to do so.

Right, "wine" and "OpenGL" showed up very frequently in my search.
Interesting to know that there are als 64- vs. 32-bit problems.
 
> > > > I'd like to wait for Chris' additional tests in a VM without OpenGL
> > > > to make sure that the mumble binary itself still works there.
> > > > Then I'm happy to upload the package.
> > > Ok.  I could tell you the answer to that right now ...
> > > but I'm in no rush, so whenever you're ready is fine with me :)
> > Right, there's no immediate hurry, so one more confirmation fits my
> > "better safe than sorry" mode :)
> I just ran it on an amd64 VM within an Xfce session and it seems to be okay.  

Cool, thanks for running these tests!

> To be on the safe side I suspended compositing on the host and made sure the 
> VM didn't have 3D acceleration available.  Starting mumble on the command 
> line 
> I get a whole bunch of audio-related errors which I'm going to assume are not 
> important for the libGL issue so I'm filtering them out.  

Ack.

> No GL-related errors, so I think we're clear with this fix AFAICT.  :-)

Cool, then I'm preparing the upload now.
Thanks agin.

Cheers,
gregor

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