On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 06:51:28AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Jerry James <loganjerry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Kalev Lember <kalevlember@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> polymake jjames, rmattes > > > > At long last I have been able to fix this. The polymake maintainers, > > based on their experience with some unspecified Linux distributions, > > not including Fedora but including Ubuntu, assumed that all 32-bit > > perl builds include 64-bit native integers. However, Fedora's perl is > > configured so that 32-bit perl has only 32-bit native integers. The > > polymake maintainers expressed great surprise that Fedora is so > > backward that we haven't heard about 64-bit native integers in 32-bit > > perl yet. Nonetheless, once the problem was identified, they helped > > me fix it and promised to add a test for this problem to their test > > suite to prevent its reappearance. > > Might be worth filing a bug to track/document why we don't have the > 64bit ints on 32 bit perl. Debian uses `Configure -Duse64bitint' which seems to be the key. I've written quite a few Perl programs where I've had to tell the end user that they must use a 64 bit platform. Didn't realize until now there was a way to configure 64 bit ints on a 32 bit platform. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
