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>From: Armin Weatherwax <arminweather...@lavabit.com>
>To: opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com
>Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 11:53 AM
>Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Linux 64bit non-standalone (was: Linux toolchain
>update... testers needed.)
>
>Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) wrote:
>
>> There is no plan to do this.
>>
>> There is also not a plan not to do it.
>>
>> I don't know whether or not the new build systems this was created on
>> are any better set up for 64 bit building than the old one they will
>> replace were (I'll find out). However, even if they are, doing the
>> work to rebuild and retest all the components and the viewer itself
>> is not a priority for Linden Lab. If it happens that the build
>> systems are already going to be 64 bit capable, and some open source
>> developer (or team) wants to take on doing the job, I can coordinate
>> the requisite access.
>
>I'm building Linux 64bit non-standalone viewers since 2 1/2 years now,
>in gerneral once all libraries where in place there has been most of
>the time no extra work - its just a Linux version with different
>libraries. Looking at the download couter, a bit more than half of all
>Imprudence Linux users are using the 64bit version).
>
>The patch I'm using for autobuild is trivial
>https://bitbucket.org/ArminW/autobuild-kokua/changeset/d653428ae98e -
>to build 64bit export AUTOBUILD_PLATFORM_OVERRIDE=linux64 ("linux64"
>is inherited from viewer 1 time, there have been some package
>references in the install.xml file).
>Adding a linux64 project to the viewer isn't that much of a difference,
>see for example Boroondas draft repository:
>https://bitbucket.org/boroondas/viewer-development-linux64-draft .
>I added also a linux64 project to many of the 3p libslibrary, though not
>yet all of them, see https://bitbucket.org/ArminW . Probably some bits
>and pieces would need changing if someone wants to prepare versions for
>LL use, but for sure for that purpose they can already save a lot of
>time in the way they are now. If someone or a team wants to take the
>job of getting them through the codereview process I'm glad to
>contribute my work as is.
>
>Armin
>
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