Hey, I'm forwarding this to the list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I know some people have "succeeded" to get Beagle running on an x86_64 architecture. I don't have any experience with this, since I don't have a 64-bit machine. I'm hoping they can guide you and/or give you some feedback.
Best, Lukas On St, 2005-07-13 at 10:20 -0500, Ryan Wolschlag wrote: > Lukas, > > I'm sure you're much too busy with daily life to be bothering with > this, however, I have nowhere else to go with it. With that being > said, there is some super weird stuff going on with the past 2 beagle > releases that I can't find replicated anywhere, nor can I find them > listed as bugs. So, I thought I would check with you to see if these > are to be expected for the current releases...later to be resolved. > I'm also assuming all of you developing the project (at least for the > most part) are building and testing on 32-bit machines. I myself am > using x86_64 (AMD) machines to build and test on. > > 1. During config with autogen, everything goes fine, but during make > there is a failure when looking for gecko-utils.lo in the beagle/glue > directory. This is because it is getting named as gecko-utils.loT > after compilation. It has done this since 0.11. > > 2. The -replace option is all but worthless. As you run the daemon, it > creates a few instances of dependent processes, a few of I assume are > gconfd2, a bonobo instance for evolution, and a mono instance (I'm > sure there are more but they are causing this issue). If Beagle exits > with errors, these processes basically refuse to quit along with > beagle, and prevent any further instances of beagle from launching, > without first killing these. So again, -replace does nothing to help > this. > > Also, in the latest newsletter there is a mention of people packaging > beagle for different distributions, but I haven't seen any, although I > assume the Novell crew are doing the Suse side with yourself and Nat. > So after wasting all these lines of explanation, I would also like to > be helpful in keeping the 'Getting Started' section of the wiki up to > date, as it is hardly helping for the Suse part right now since so > many changes have gone through in the past two releases. I'm checking > every release thoroughly because I'm flippin obsessed with using > Beagle as a network based search engine. Sort of like a non-suck > version of a Google appliance, also saving people $30k by using beagle > instead. Since I do all of this on 64-bit systems, I'm hoping I can > contribute somehow. -Ryan > _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
