Anton A. Arapov posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:39:37 +1000:
> Thanks... I remarked 'firebird' in use.mask. Now all ok... > > Strange, but I looked for 'firebird' in amd64 2005.0 profile before and > cann't find em... :-\ It probably isn't there, because of the cascading profiles thing. That means anything not specifically changed is inherited from the parent profile, usually the parent dir, which inherits from its parent, all the way up the tree to the main default-linux profile, which inherits from ../base according to the parent file. Follow the cascade from your profile dir up the tree until you find firebird mentioned in use.mask. IIRC, it's in default-linux/amd64. > Where I can read _what exactly_ not working in Firebird under AMD64!? I'm not sure I've seen it mentioned exactly what fails. IIRC the mask simply mentions it is copied over from a previous profile. Also check the Gentoo amd64 technotes. It was mentioned there, IIRC, but again, IDR anything specific except that it didn't work. Beyond that, I'd suggest checking the bugzilla database. Perhaps it was mentioned there somewhere. Either that or one of the devs should hopefully remember what the issue was that caused it to be masked. It may have been a problem with gcc-3.3 that was fixed with 3.4 but since everybody that might have tried it "knew" it didn't work, nobody knows it works yet. <g> Of course, more likely it has something to do with some code that's not 64-bit clean, either integer vs. pointer length assumptions or the like, which can be fixed fairly easy by someone knowing C, or worse, something directly 32-bit x86 assembly coded, that's incompatible with 64-bit assembly. That too can be fixed, but it's a hard rewrite of the assembly section in question, which not only takes someone that knows both 32-bit and 64-bit assembly, but also requires that someone be interested enough in the application at hand for it to be worth their trouble to fix up, ideally, with support from upstream, so their fixes get worked back into the application code for future releases as well. > Today morning I started firebird server and simple SQLs works correctly. I'm glad it's working! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
