Funny that I did not see my message on my sun address and also the reply. Hence, sorry for the late response.
> > there a valid reason for this ? > > > we don't build 64 bit for all the gnome libraries. > In the past we > nly build 64 bits libraries which are has 'committed' > interface. > As of late, more 64 bit libraries are built because > people requesting > it. The following are the list of spec files that > build 64 bit libraries, > > bash-3.2$ grep -l _64 *.spec > SUNWbrltty.spec > SUNWdbus-bindings.spec > SUNWdbus.spec > SUNWflac.spec > SUNWgnome-a11y-libs.spec > SUNWgnome-audio.spec > SUNWgnome-base-libs.spec > SUNWgnome-component.spec > SUNWgnome-config.spec > SUNWgnome-spell.spec > SUNWgnome-themes.spec > SUNWlibsdl.spec > SUNWpng.spec > > SUNWgnome-print.spec is not one of them. Thanks! This is useful info. > > If there is a good reason for this, then I believe > wxWidgets can only be > > built without support for Gnome printing. > > > Not sure I understand you here? Ohh, I just meant, the 64 bit version cannot be built with gnomeprint. > Here, please note that, the 32 bit version exists and > hence during > > configure of wxWidgets, libgnomeprint and > libgnomeprintui are detected > > as available. > > > Yes. This is used by a number of GNOME > applications up to this point. > owever, the GNOME release team has just decided to > drop these two > libraries completely from GNOME 2.24 as they > obsoleted quite a few > releases ago. My suggestion is that if you can avoid > using these > libraries, all the better. The replacement for this > is in the GTK+ > printing API which it does have the 64-bit lib. Thanks for this,very useful. I will not build even the 32 bit with gnomeprint then. Let me see if wxWidget build system has support to build with GTK print libraries. Thanks Mayuresh This message posted from opensolaris.org
