On Sun, 3 May 2009 02:18:49 +0200
Christian Biere <[email protected]> wrote:
> The latest release is actually 0.96.6 although I'd recommend using
> 0.96.7u from SVN instead because the "stable" release leaks quite
> badly.
Yes, you are correct. I blindly thought that pkgsrc/net/gtk-gnutella
was up-to-date. :-)
> The old detection unit wasn't cross-compilable and suffered from blahism.
> It defined MEM_ALIGNBYTES but actually talked about double. I considered
> detecting the common maximum alignment constraint for all native types
> is more useful and matching the seemingly obvious semantic of "align bytes".
> Histerically, the widest type with the strictest alignment constraints
> was 'double' but this was in the dark ages before the advent of C99,
> maybe even before C89.
>
> gtk-gnutella doesn't use "long double" but some library might, in theory.
I see.
> > Any comments? I am not really sure how to proceed here.. I assume this
> > works fine on other 64bit OSes?
>
> Well, bugs don't exist unless reported. Apparently it does but nobody really
> knows. In general, if gtk-gnutella doesn't compile or the compiler reports any
> warnings, people should report these as soon as possible.
I commented out the long double type from the Configure script test,
and have built a trunk version of gtk-gnutella. It has been running
stable for a couple of hours. Not much of a formal verification, but at
least an "it works here"-report..
Best regards,
Lars Nordlund
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