On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 01:37:38PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > 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. I was kind of hoping a Perl developer might jump in there, but perhaps because this thread quite old, and has a confusing subject line, no one has. Anyway I filed this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268828 Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
