On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 4:43 PM Tom Sullivan <i...@beforgiven.info> wrote:
> Y'all: > > I finally successfully brought up a Fedora VM. > > General warning: Do NOT install LXDE - it will trash your ability to > highlight text or copy/paste. XFCE is fine. > > Anyway, I tried multiple times to compile and run: > Sword - worked fine as a test - there is a current rpm. > Yes, I package 1.8.1 combined with a major patch from Jaak that changes all the __u64 integers to std::uint64_t values, because Sword does not compile on PPC64LE due to errors regarding the __u64 type definition. However, std::uint64_t values are consistent across the types (i.e. Sword doesn't attempt to redefine them). Thus, you have the latest release available in Fedora. Bibletime - could not compile - rpm is still version 2 > 2.11 is still the latest. 3.0 is still in RC/preview. Fedora discourages shipping RPMs of RC/beta software unless it's a product (like GMail was for years) that is a perpetual beta. So this RPM is still up to date. As soon as 3.0 final lands, I'll build the RPMs for it. Xiphos - Could compile, had to copy *.so in order to run, acted > strangely and did not show all modules. - rpm is still version 4.1 > Which *.so did you have to copy, from where to where? Also, 4.2.1 is in the updates-testing repository. Fedora requires all package updates for a released version (Fedora 31 or 32 is probably what you're running, based on this) to land in an "updates-testing" repository for at least 7 days or until it has been tested as working by at least 3 different people before they get moved to the standard repositories. You can install the new version by "dnf install --enablerepo=updates-testing xiphos" if you want to give feedback on the new package. For something like Xiphos I rarely get any test feedback, so it lands automatically 7 days after I issue the build. So in 6-7 days you'll see 4.2.1 make it to the stable repo. It's already in Rawhide (Fedora's analogue to Debian Testing), since that is not a gated, stable release. > This is NOT a call for assistance. I will await suitable rpm files from > any source. Monkeying around with that which is over my head is a waste > of everybody's time, mine and yours. > Sword and BibleTime is already at latest, and Xiphos can be pulled from updates-testing as I mention above or you can wait < 1 week's time and you'll have it as long as you're working on Fedora 31 or later. Thanks for giving it a gander! --Greg > > Many thanks. > > Tom > > Tom Sullivan > i...@beforgiven.info > FAX: 815-301-2835 > --------------------- > > > On 5/14/20 4:06 AM, Dominique Corbex wrote: > > On Wed, 13 May 2020 17:27:43 -0400 > > Tom Sullivan <i...@beforgiven.info> wrote: > > > >> The repositories do not contain the latest versions. For example, the > >> Debian Buster repository presents Xiphos 4.1, not the latest 4.2. > > > > I was a long time Debian user, I switched to Fedora for that reason. > > > > On Fedora, (many thanks to Greg) you have all the latest > > frontend/backend software, and tools/bindings you need for building > > your own modules and so on. Boring time spent trying to build > > xiphos/sword/whateverelse from scratch is history. > > > > I don't have any regrets. IMHO Every serious Crosswire user should run > > Fedora. > > > > Dom > > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >
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