Re: 64bit skype client needed

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On 09/17/2014 11:26 PM, Marcel J.E. Mol issued this missive:
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 02:14:21PM -0600, jd1008 wrote:

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.

I wonder if skype 4.2 still works. I think I was forced to upgrade to
4.3 to get it working again.

They changed the login protocol requiring the upgrade to 4.3. 4.2 functions but won't log into the Skype servers (well, it might log
in, but you can't communicate with anyone).
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