On 09/17/2014 01:14 PM, jd1008 issued this missive:
On 09/17/2014 01:54 PM, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote:
OK, I have the rpm pf skype which was built for fc18:
skype-4.2.0.11-3.fc18.x86_64.rpm
but it still depends on i686 libs and other components.
I was wondering if there is a way to extract the spec file
from it and rebuild it (i.e. relink it) with 64bit libs, by
editing the spec file, and running rpmbuild ...etc.
To make a 64-bit build of the application, you would need to actually
compile the sources with a compiler that targets the 64-bit
instruction set. This requires access to application source code.
Source code to the Skype client is not available.
My impression is that the skype "x86_64" rpm is still the same 32-bit
application that ships in their 32-bit package.
Fortunately, an x86-64 Fedora installation can easily run also 32-bit
applications.
-Joonas
Yes I know, but I just found out how to do a rebuild of the binary
via
# rpmrebuild autogenerated specfile
but it still requires 32 bit libs.
Although it's packaged as a 64-bit RPM, the executable requires 32-bit
libraries and I think the binary itself is 32-bit. If you do a "file
/bin/skype", I think you'll see that. If not, well, it still needs 32-
bit libraries.
As someone else said, to really use 64-bit libs you must recompile the
source and the source isn't available. End of story. Sorry.
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