Hi Hans, On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:11:02 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > 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. I opened a review request now: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214751 Please put your patches there. Thanks for your help. I think this package can be useful to at least a few of us. And who knows, maybe this becomes one of those vintage craze :-) C -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
