Dear Andreas, On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 at 08:56 Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 09:01:21PM +0300, Liubov Chuprikova wrote: > > > Is it supposed to build on i386? On the upstream wiki page, compiled > > binaries are available only for 64-bit architectures. It seems, that they > > do not support 32-bit architectures anymore. Well, as far as I understood upstream the reason for their self made > build system is the support of different architectures (no idea why they > can not accomplish this task with automake or cmake). > > The error I spotted in the build log[3 > > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncbi-vdb.so: undefined > reference to `uint64_msbit' > > might be connected to libncbi-vdb - possibly some incompatibility issue > there? Yes, I think so. Here upstream implemented [1] this function `uint64_msbit` for x86-64 [2] and for Windows, presumably. But it was not defined for i386, so there is a warning during the build [3]: warning: implicit declaration of function 'uint64_msbit'; did you mean 'uint32_msbit'? You might like to ask upstream but I admit I've spent so many > hours into this software compared to other that my motivation to deal > with this issue is not going beyond restricting it just to amd64 (which > seems to be the only *tested* platform). > [1] https://github.com/ncbi/ncbi-vdb/commit/ec24d0c332cdb738a2f4516ad8bf53dd55743457 [2] https://github.com/ncbi/ncbi-vdb/blob/f016c209f0a348136abce1966d8a74932eb47658/interfaces/cc/gcc/x86_64/arch-impl.h#L138 [3] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ncbi-vdb&arch=i386&ver=2.9.1-1%2Bdfsg-1&stamp=1530160846&raw=0 With regards, Liubov
