We have been running 2.3.x code on 64-bit sparcv9 kernels (Solaris 8 on Sun Fire V240) without any problem. What is your hardware and OS? Andy Fiddaman wrote: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Andy Fiddaman wrote: > ; I'm finally getting around to upgrading my 2.3.7 system to 2.3.9. When I > ; put in 2.3.7 I had to patch a few things to make it work properly on > ; 64-bit SPARC, mainly unaligned dereferences causing BUS faults due to > ; the SPARC MMU. > > Sorry to follow up my own post but I've finished testing cyrus 2.3.9 on > 64-bit Solaris SPARC and I now have a stable server as far as I can tell > (we have a fairly intensive test suite...) > > In stock 2.3.9 there are quite a few 64-bit alignment problems which cause > BUS errors and a problem with the Perl module XS that causes the imclient > structure to be double freed and therefore crashes Perl most of the time. > > I've put patches for these up at http://www.fiddaman.net/cyrus/ please > feel free to use them (or something like them) as you wish. It would be > good to have these fixes rolled into the main Cyrus release. > > Thanks, > > Andy > > -- Kenneth Murchison Systems Programmer Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer Carnegie Mellon University ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
