Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-21 Thread Scott Beamer
Flávio Etrusco spake thusly: >>> Exacty. That's precicely my point. Fedora, Mandriva and openSUSE have >>> thsi down. >> >> Which has nothing to do with rpm versus deb. It just happens that their >> repo layout/structure was much more conducive to packaging properly for >> 64-bit. >> >> > IIRC r

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-16 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, March 17, 2010 08:15 AM, Flávio Etrusco wrote: >>> >>> Exacty. That's precicely my point. Fedora, Mandriva and openSUSE have >>> thsi down. >> >> Which has nothing to do with rpm versus deb. It just happens that their >> repo layout/structure was much more conducive to packaging prop

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-16 Thread Flávio Etrusco
>> >> Exacty. That's precicely my point. Fedora, Mandriva and openSUSE have >> thsi down. > > Which has nothing to do with rpm versus deb. It just happens that their > repo layout/structure was much more conducive to packaging properly for > 64-bit. > IIRC rpm allows installing multiple versions

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-16 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, March 17, 2010 03:10 AM, Scott Beamer wrote: > Christopher Chan spake thusly: > >>> I don't mean to be a "[citation needed] troll", but I've honestly never >>> heard anything suggesting this before. Would you mind explaining how >>> RPMs handle 32/64 better than DEBs? My understanding

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-16 Thread Scott Beamer
Christopher Chan spake thusly: >> I don't mean to be a "[citation needed] troll", but I've honestly never >> heard anything suggesting this before. Would you mind explaining how >> RPMs handle 32/64 better than DEBs? My understanding was that as long >> as you installed ia32-libs then you shouldn'

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-16 Thread Evan
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:10 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: > > > I don't mean to be a "[citation needed] troll", but I've honestly never > > heard anything suggesting this before. Would you mind explaining how > > RPMs handle 32/64 better than DEBs? My understanding was that as long as > > you insta

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-16 Thread Christopher Chan
> I don't mean to be a "[citation needed] troll", but I've honestly never > heard anything suggesting this before. Would you mind explaining how > RPMs handle 32/64 better than DEBs? My understanding was that as long as > you installed ia32-libs then you shouldn't have to do anything else; the > s

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-15 Thread Scott Beamer
Evan spake thusly: > I don't mean to be a "[citation needed] troll", but I've honestly never > heard anything suggesting this before. Would you mind explaining how > RPMs handle 32/64 better than DEBs? My understanding was that as long as > you installed ia32-libs then you shouldn't have to do any

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-15 Thread Evan
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Scott Beamer wrote: > Thomas Tempelmann spake thusly: > > >... I've created a 32 bit application that uses Gtk 2, which > > launches fine on the 32 Bit Ubuntu 9.10 default installation. > > > > But when I launch the same app on the 64 bit Ubuntu version, the > > fo

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-14 Thread Scott Beamer
Thomas Tempelmann spake thusly: >... I've created a 32 bit application that uses Gtk 2, which > launches fine on the 32 Bit Ubuntu 9.10 default installation. > > But when I launch the same app on the 64 bit Ubuntu version, the > following things happen.. [...] The problem is that Debian (an

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-14 Thread Evan
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Thomas Tempelmann wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 00:26, Dmitrijs Ledkovs > wrote: > > > I don't think an error is needed. Generally on Ubuntu you launch > > .desktop files of applications installed using Software Centre / > > Synaptic / apt. All of which are of

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas Tempelmann
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 00:26, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > I don't think an error is needed. Generally on Ubuntu you launch > .desktop files of applications installed using Software Centre / > Synaptic / apt. All of which are of correct architecture. I disagree. I think it's important to get your

Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-14 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 14 March 2010 22:40, Thomas Tempelmann wrote: > Hi there, > this is my first post. I've signed up here because I have a particular > problem I like to discuss with the developers. > > I'm a long-time software developer, although I'm not a big fan of Unix and > derivates. I am mostly developing

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas Tempelmann
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 23:52, Stéphane Graber wrote: > ldd > > Will at least give you the list of shared libraries that your binary is > using an if not present, tell you so. Yes, it appears to find them all, mostly in /usr/lib32 and /lib32, which is expected, I assume. Only exceptions not in l

Re: Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-14 Thread Stéphane Graber
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 23:40 +0100, Thomas Tempelmann wrote: > Hi there, > this is my first post. I've signed up here because I have a particular > problem I like to discuss with the developers. > > I'm a long-time software developer, although I'm not a big fan of Unix and > derivates. I am mostly

Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas Tempelmann
Hi there, this is my first post. I've signed up here because I have a particular problem I like to discuss with the developers. I'm a long-time software developer, although I'm not a big fan of Unix and derivates. I am mostly developing for OS X, and used to do for classic Mac OS, so I'm more of a