Re: buildd failure for amd64 - floating point encoding?

2004-10-27 Thread Levi Bard
I would try FP2 first, since amd64 is architecturally most similar to x86 (IBM PC) architecture.

glibc-2.3.3 manpages / glibc-2.3.2 library

2004-10-27 Thread Dan Shechter
Hi, Im just writing this to make sure. I've just installed my fresh pure64 debian and used apt-get to install gcc & friends. The "resulting" installation is such that I have gcc-2.3.2 installed in /lib and gcc-2.3.3 manpages installed on the same system. I came to notice this by experiencing compil

Re: some processes having large memory footprints

2004-10-27 Thread Peter Nelson
Richard Wohlstadter wrote: I'm new with the AMD64 debian port and had some questions I'm hoping someone out there can answer for me. One thing I noticed after installing the AMD64 port on our opterons is that some processes seem to have very large memory footprints on the system. For example,

Re: Beginner question about pure64 vs. sarge vs. gcc3.4

2004-10-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Steffen Schwigon wrote: > [ I'm new to 64bit, but read amd64 HOWTO and the like ] Excellent! > I want to setup a Debian/Sarge-like system on my Athlon64fx. I tried > an install of "sarge" with a Debian-Installer-CD. The install itself > looked good, but it couldn't write a correct boot loader, ne

Re: buildd failure for amd64 - floating point encoding?

2004-10-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Helen Faulkner wrote: > Please CC to me - I'm not subscribed to the list. > > I am maintaining a new package, labplot, that is failing, at its first > upload, to build on amd64 (among other things). According to the package page it looks like this failed on all but four of the current architectu

Re: Recommended Graphics card for OpenGL (now is Matrox G450 /Athlon 64)

2004-10-27 Thread Thomas J. Zeeman
Hi, > I own a matrox g450 that is ok for my needs. It's quiet and fast enough

Re: Recommended Graphics card for OpenGL (now is Matrox G450 / Athlon 64)

2004-10-27 Thread Eric Lacroix
Le mardi 26 octobre 2004 à 11:50 +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman a écrit : > > I wonder whether anyone knows (if any) graphics board can be bought > > which also has complete source code for reasonable, even average, > > performance OpenGL (Mesa) which also works on pure64? > > > > [...] > > ps. currently

Re: package updates in Sarge AMD64

2004-10-27 Thread Bob Proulx
softadmin wrote: > After using the Sarge AMD64 distribution for some time, I did notice the > Package.gz file gets updated but the packages inside the archive don't. > > (I'm talking about the distribution at: > http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/sarge/dists/sarge/) > > Is this due to a techni