On Thursday 4 October 2018 05:50, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> put forth the proposition: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, 414N wrote: > > > I've got no problems too building glabels on a Slackware64 14.2 system > > with Eric's multilib packages installed. > > > If it is gcc, what version are you using? Is it > > "gcc-5.5.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien"?
Rich, Sorry to reiterate this point, and I apologise if it seems obvious to you, but just to be clear, I'm wondering how long ago you installed the multilib packages and if you check for updates? It's a good idea to do an rysnc of the multilib server from time-to-time to check if there have been any updates. Dave > Alan, > > The issue seems to be the newness of the hardware, most likely the CPU; > perhaps also the motherboard. Packages that have built with no issues on the > three 64-bit portables here that are older will not build on this new > system. > > A couple of examples. OpenBLAS (which I need for GRASS, the spatial > analysis tool) would not build until I added a line to the build script > specifying TARGET=ZEN. 'ZEN' is the codename for AMD's Ryzen line of > high-performance CPUs that were first released last year. Adding that target > allowed OpenBLAS to build. > > AlienBOB wrote that he, too, has a Ryzen CPU in a desktop and experienced > some failure issues just running. He fixed that by uupgrading the 14.2's > kernel to one in the 4.14 series. > > In order to build GnuCash I need goffice/goffice8, and neither will build > on this new box. But, LyX, TeXlive, and JabRef built flawlessly (and > quickly.) All this seems to point to support for a CPU released well after > the basic (and fully patched) 14.2 was released. > > Unless Those Who Know tell me not to upgrade to -current, just upgrade the > kernel (and it's been more than 15 years since I built a custom kernel from > kernel.org source; not since 2003 when I switched from Red Hat 7.4 to > Slackware-8.0) I'll do the upgrade this coming weekend. After learning how > best to do this. > > Thanks, > > Rich -- Dave Boston State House is the hub of the Solar System. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar. -- O. W. Holmes .--. oo (____)// ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'
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