November 2005 - Arch-ports - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-ports] Who's working on Arch64 packages?
by Dusty Phillips 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hey all, Now that Arch64 site and svn are up and running again, are we ready to start packaging!? :-) I'm curious to know who's working on packages and who has accounts, etc. (If you don't have one, contact c14n for one. If you want your name on the web page, contact him or me. We're both pretty busy ATM, so please be patient). I think it might also be useful to discuss who's working on what. We don't have enough devs yet to assign specific people to specific packages like the Arch core team does, and each of us has different levels of experience (I, for example generally give up if I can't get it to compile within a few tries and a half-assed google search for 64 bit patches.....). We have two issues to address, maintaining existing packages and adding new ones. maintainig packages isn't a big deal, whoever gets to updating one first should be able to submit the svn and package before anybody else wastes too much time on it. I guess if you have trouble and are working on it it wouldn't hurt to let everybody know you're trying to solve it so they can work on other stuff. For building new packages, if there is one you are working on and having trouble with, it probably pays to let others know to reduce duplicate effort. Lets also start a list of what needs to be worked on. Perhaps this should be put in a wiki page so we can all maintain it: Packages needing updating: nontrivial: kernel26 initscripts trivial: haven't had time to look Packages needing contribution: (these are some I personally need before I consider Arch64 my primary system): OpenOffice 2 vlc jpilot I've tried the last two and got errors that I haven't had time to investigate. Is anybody working on oo? If not, I can try to do it, but I'm not sure my packaging skills are up to snuff. Any other ideas to help get rolling? Dusty

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[arch-ports] Arch64
by Mr Green 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi, Any chance of having FAQ on Arch64 ? getting many requests from 64bit'ers .... Where is me svn password ? can some one mail me one so I can get building ;-) I have given up on the idea of a mirror for Arch64, I'll just host packages/pkgbuilds I have built in case anyone wants them (let you know when & where soon!!) Ok are we going to get a new kernel ?? initrd (why!!!) etc.. Is Arch64 going to tackle issues with libs 32/64 IA_64 x86_64 & so on .. ? or can we come up with our own solution ;-) May I suggest we use a name for Arch64 release , I know we are using Wombat atm but a 0.1 release <insert name here> let me know what you think Anyway glad to see www.arch64.org up at last (thanks to c14n!) Please anyone using a 64bit machine sing out we would love to hear from you (that includes Robot5x if your out there!) Mr Green Arch64 user

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[arch-ports] Arch64 suggestions
by Maluvia 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Hi Seshu, Since the Arch64 site is currently down, I thought this might be a good opportunity to pop in a few suggestions regarding the Arch64 port, based on my own experiences with it. 1. It would be *very* helpful to some of us (like me) if you would make both a uniprocessor (UP) as well as an SMP version of the kernel available. Some uniprocessor boards like mine do not behave well with SMP kernels. Mine in particular has been very badly broken - unable to compile anything at all. (Cf. Bug 4851: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4851) Linus put a patch in the 2.6.14 kernel to deal with the problem, but I have to wait for someone to compile it and make it available -or- make a UP (no numa) version of the 2.6.13 kernel that I can try out. Perhaps I am the only one who has had this issue, but as the Arch64 port attracts more users, it may crop with other people as well. Minor suggestions: I think the binutils pkg needs to have the search path corrected to match gcc-4.0.2-2. (i.e. changed from "-unknown-linux-gnu" to "pc-linux-gnu") I don't know if this is causing any problems or not, but it makes sense that they be consistent. >From my experience the symlink in glibc is not helpful. I recently did a clean reinstall - installed glibc first, replaced the lib, usr/lib symlinks with regular lib, usr/lib directories, then installed everything else, and my system seems to be more stable. I think gcc and X are the only programs that use lib64, and a multilib OS will be using lib32 for 32bit libs anyway. (Minor nitpick - the ncurses pkg always installs with the permissions messed up, but I found this to be so with the 32bit Arch as well, so it's not an Arch64 issue, but it is annoying to have to go in and fix them all up by hand.) I realize the move to the new 2.6.14 kernel is going to be a big shift with the initrd, libtool slaying in progress, etc. Hope it all goes well, and thanks again for all your hard work on this port. If I can ever manage to get a system working well enough to compile something I will be happy to contribute packages to the project. Good luck with the next round. -Maluvia

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[arch-ports] arch64 website
by Gernot Pansy 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

hy, what happens to arch64.org website ? it's down for maintance since a few days. i want to setup arch64 on my laptop and help to improve. ciao gernot

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[arch-ports] [Arch64] help with Oo2 / gimp2.2.9
by Arnaud Fortier 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Hi, as I'm new to this list I don't know if this has been answered, anyway, following what's on arch wiki to get abs running ( mount arch32 and chroot in it ... ) I've built an openoffice2.0 package, but when I install it it says : ./unopkg: line 100: /opt/openoffice/program/javaldx: No such file or directory ./unopkg: line 136: /opt/openoffice/program/unopkg.bin: No such file or directory ./unopkg: line 136: /opt/openoffice/program/unopkg : Success But when I try to launch it it says : /usr/bin/soffice: line 152: /opt/openoffice/program/javaldx : No such file or directory /usr/bin/soffice: line 213: /opt/openoffice/program/pagin : No such file or directory /usr/bin/soffice: line 213: /opt/openoffice/program/soffice.bin : No such file or directory After searching on gentoo's forum and on google I found that this seems to be a java related problem. I have j2re / j2sdk installed ( in 64bits ) The $JAVA_HOME var is well set to /opt/java /opt/openoffice/program/soffice.bin exists !! End of problem with openoffice2 Now the gimp 2.2.9 here it's worse, I can't generate a package there's an error : GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory gtk / gtk-engines / gtk2 / gtkspell are installed ... Anyway, I manage to compile and install kde-i18n-fr. I have an Acer Laptop 1513Lmi ( Athlon64 3400+ / 512 MB / 60GB / 5700Go / nForce3 ) running : Archlinux 0.7.1 / Arch64 / Kubuntu 5.10(64) / Suse 10.1 alpha2(64) If I can help: I'm a php/mysql web developper, system administrator. Feel free to ask I'm also on irc chans #archlinuxfr / #arch64 ... callsign 'warnaud' :-) Thx for reply.

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[arch-ports] 64-bit performance aproach
by Sergey Manucharyan 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi folks, I enjoy using the "regular" Archlinux for 2 years on 3 machines. I'd like to have the x86_64 flavor on my eMachines with Athlon64 CPU, and I've tried a couple of other x86_64 linux distributions on it with no performance improvement. Just recompiling applications for x86_64 architecture doesn't help - some things become even slower, for example, video encoding. Let's see what AMD suggests: "ACML (AMD Core Math Library) is ... a 64-bit library that is designed to fully exploit the large memory space and improved performance offered by the latest AMD64 architectures. ACML is supported on both Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems." http://www.developwithamd.com/acml.aspx What do think about this? Are there benchamrks available for Arch64 compared to 686 Archlinux? Cheers, S. -------------------------------------- sent through sqMail for Xoops (http://www.guanxiCRM.com)

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[arch-ports] change cflags in ppc ports ?
by Benoit Chesneau 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Dunno if it works for g3 but it seems ok. Why not changing default cflags for : -O2 -mtune=powerpc -pipe It woould be more optimized for g4. What do you think about it ? - Benoît

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[arch-ports] Arch-PPC help
by olivasj＠ecs.csus.edu 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Hello, I've been using Arch for a few years now, but I bought an old iMac 400mhz to play with, and I wanted to put Arch on it to make it useful. I've been to the Arch-PPC website, but it looks like the boot/install cds in the download section are old and broken. Also, the documentation seems a bit outdated. Is there anywhere else I should be looking, and also, how soon is the 0.1 release? Any assistance is appreciated! -Joe

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