On Fri Mar 17, 2006 at 09:31:52PM +0100, Yves Potin wrote: > > Hello. > I'm about to switch from Debian Sid 32 bits to Gentoo 64 bits. I > have noticed ( http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=specimen ) that > Specimen isn't provided as a package in Gentoo 64 bits. So I have two > questions : > - Does the source code of Specimen compile and permits a normally > usable Specimen under a 64 Bits OS ? (and, if it's the case, does anybody > know why there's no gentoo package ? Lack of interest from any developper > or something, as quite any other audio apps seems to be avalaible under > gentoo ?). grep KEYW `equery which specimen` KEYWORDS="-amd64 ~ppc sparc x86" since its not just lacking amd64 entirely (this only seems to happen for obscure ruby packages), and has a specifically negative amd64, this means its broken. a quick run to http://bugs.gentoo.org, and search for specimen, reveals some updated ebuild for 0.5.1, and a comment: #-amd64: 0.4.5: int/pointer casting. if you want to try installing it anyways, nano `equery which specimen` and change the -amd64 to amd64, emerge --digest specimen, and if it works, make a comment on the bug report that its fixed on amd64 (you proably want to grab the 0.5.1 ebuild before doing this) > - If I setup a 32 bits chroot under Gentoo 64 bits as it's > documented here : > ( http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=2 > ), will Specimen be usable just as a normal jackd-enabled software, with > jackd running in the 64 bits environment ? More generally, when > encountering an audio software which cannot run in 64 bits, how does it > work with 64 bits jackd ? 64bit jackd can not talk to 32bit apps, afaik. you could run a 32bit jackd, and link with the other via UDP. or try the ALSA-lib plug:jack, or try using it in 64bit mode and figure out if theres any bugs ( SClang and PD would both require significant rewriting to work on 64bit mode due to their "VM"-y nature that expects ints to be the same size as pointers, but most everything else works fine ) > Thanks in advance for any enlightenment :). > Cheers, > > Y.
