On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have submitted bug #86376 to the Debian bug-tracking system, > claiming that the xanim plugins no longer work on Alpha. These > plugins are the closed-source, NDA'd, binary-distribution portion of > xanim, that allows it to use fairly modern video codecs.
As upstream has noted, it's probably a glibc version issue. > Most likely they need to be recompiled and to do so I'd need to > get an up-to-date linux/alpha cross compiler(using the current > libc used by most linux/alpha) and that would run on a linux/x86 > libc6 system and a volunteer to test the results. Ack! Tell him not to do this. Cross-compiling from a 32-bit arch to a 64-bit arch is a no-no, generally. Even if he could get the modules cross-compiled on i386, they may/may not work very well (if at all) on Alpha. I could launch into a technical discussion on this, but I'd rather not :-) > It's unfortunate that every rev of libc and glibc are not > compatible with each other. I hope they stabilize at some > point. In reality, it may not necessarily be a glibc issue...could be toolchain as well (especially if they're dealing with libstdc++). I agree, in general, though...more consistency would be nice. > I would build such a cross-compiler for him but have no experience in > the matter and no way of testing it. I am more than willing to test > the results of the recompiled plugins. Are the modules only available in pre-compiled form? If not, I'd be happy to compile them for him and so that you can test them. > Once this is done, we can all enjoy watching Quicktime and AVI movies > on our Alphas. That would be VERY nice :-) C
