Re: i386 vs amd64 revisited (was Re: Lenny: which arch for a Intel Core 2 Duo?)
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:23:32AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/06/09 23:15, Chris Bannister wrote: >> I'm now running full amd64 and notice there is no crafty package[1] I >> normally compile crafty from source anyway (to get the latest version) >> but am getting errors even doing that. On i386 on this exact same >> machine it compiled fine. > > I think that's an issue for crafty-devel. crafty-list actually, and yeah, I intend to take up the issue there once I look into it more closely. >> [1] Thought a package was supposed to compile on all architectures. > > It is, theoretically. But the package has been orphaned, and it's been I remember reading something about that, and I notice the lenny i386 version is no longer available. > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/crafty > http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/crafty.html > http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=crafty Thanks for the links. You bet me to it. :) -- Chris. == I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -- Stephen F Roberts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: i386 vs amd64 revisited (was Re: Lenny: which arch for a Intel Core 2 Duo?)
On 01/06/09 23:15, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 11:55:42PM +, thveillon.debian wrote: Never had problem with w64codecs (debian-multimedia), but yes I forgot about acroread plug-in which still requires nspluginwrapper (should be working OK though, not too intensive), but i don't use it and never came across a pdf I couldn't read with (Kpdf|Xpdf|Evince|Okular). Of course I don't say it doesn't exist, my use of pdf's is quite limited... I'm now running full amd64 and notice there is no crafty package[1] I normally compile crafty from source anyway (to get the latest version) but am getting errors even doing that. On i386 on this exact same machine it compiled fine. I think that's an issue for crafty-devel. One of the main reasons I decided to do a full amd64 install was to see what sort of search improvement I could get. [1] Thought a package was supposed to compile on all architectures. It is, theoretically. But the package has been orphaned, and it's been years since there's even been an attempt to build on anything but i386. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/crafty http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/crafty.html http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=crafty -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased at above-market rates from eco-friendly organic farming cooperatives in Latin America. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
i386 vs amd64 revisited (was Re: Lenny: which arch for a Intel Core 2 Duo?)
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 11:55:42PM +, thveillon.debian wrote: > Never had problem with w64codecs (debian-multimedia), but yes I forgot > about acroread plug-in which still requires nspluginwrapper (should be > working OK though, not too intensive), but i don't use it and never came > across a pdf I couldn't read with (Kpdf|Xpdf|Evince|Okular). Of course I > don't say it doesn't exist, my use of pdf's is quite limited... I'm now running full amd64 and notice there is no crafty package[1] I normally compile crafty from source anyway (to get the latest version) but am getting errors even doing that. On i386 on this exact same machine it compiled fine. One of the main reasons I decided to do a full amd64 install was to see what sort of search improvement I could get. [1] Thought a package was supposed to compile on all architectures. -- Chris. == I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -- Stephen F Roberts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
