Christian Iseli wrote: > On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:40:18 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: >> 1) Have you checked Debian's packages of this (if they have any) usually with hard to package software >> its a good idea to start with all Debian's patches (or atleast thosw which seem to make sense) that >> might fix this. > > Yup, Pat basically used all the Debian stuff. > >> 2) If you can give me a shortlist of instructions howto reproduce this then I can take a look at my 64 >> bit machine at home (work doesn't have any 64 bit machines yet). As time permits of course. > > Sure: > - grab ftp://ftp.licr.org/pub/xview-3.2-0.1.p4.src.rpm > - mock xview-3.2-0.1.p4.src.rpm on your 64-bit machine (for FC-[567]) > - install xview, xview-clients, and xview-debuginfo > - launch "clock" > - watch it loop (it will not display anything, and use 100% CPU) > - attach a gdb to the process > > Cheers, > C Well, I've spend some hours taking a look and I've come to the same conclusion as the Debian maintainer, this is very hard to fix for 64 bit. More then that fixing probably will also include fixing / changing all xview using clients! Luckily all 64 bit platforms we support also have a 32 bit compatibility option, so I think we should just not build xview (and apps using it) for x86_64 / ppc64. It would be a good idea IMHO in cases like this to add xview + deps + packages using it to a list of packages to copy over to the x86_64 repo from the i386 repo, so that it will be readily available for those who want it. My taking a look started with suse since they had x86_64 packages of xview in their repo, but appearantly these have had the famous suse QA done do them (iow none). I did find some other interesting patches in there, which I have bundled in a smaller one with possible real fixes and a larger one which fixes a load of warnings (but no where near all warnings). I also have a patch which fixes some 64 bit related warnings by adding the necessary prototypes, which isn't enough to get this running but IMHO still should be applied / send upstream (Debian claims to be upstream these days) as it is an improvement. I wanted to attach these patches to the review request but I can't find it. Let me know where you want them send. Regards, Hans -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
