Jane McKean wrote:
> Hi there (again):
>
> We're discovering a few things as we get our build system up and running
> (to build the compiler docs along with our 64-bit compiler (optimized
> for an Opteron system). The goal is to build LyX 1.3.6 with the change
> bar patch on a 64-bit Opteron system for a number of LyX distributions.
>
> Are you using LyX on a 64-bit system (specifically Opteron)? Can we
> expect it to "just work"? Any hints you might pass along?
You can expect it to "just work". I've used LyX on 64 bit Dec Alpha
machines running both Tru64 Unix and Linux for the last 5 years.
In fact, you've made me feel all nostalgic :) My very first contribution to
the LyX project was a 64-bit fix:
1999-12-06 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes AT inria.fr>
* src/mathed/math_iter.C (my_memcpy): new function. Since the
built-in memcpy() is broken on egcs and gcc 2.95 for alpha
architecture, we provide our own. It is used unconditionnally, but
I do not think this is a performance problem. Thanks to Angus
Leeming <a.leeming AT ic.ac.uk> for the code (and again to Michal
Jaegermann <michal AT ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca> for finding it the
first time).
> Here's the note from Jeremy, the engineer who's created the change
> tracking patch and is now sorting out the build:
I'll leave discussion of this to Jean-Marc.
--
Angus
