Re: galeon and x86_64

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 08:52, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 20:28, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> > Has any thought been given to have galeon run on architectures other than 
> > Intel x86.  Specifically, I am trying to get galeon to run on the x86_64 
> > (AMD64) 64 bit architecture.
> 
> As much as I'm aware of, we poor maintainers only have IA32, and on a
> few occasions we've been pointed out bugs that raise their ugly heads
> only on other, big-endian or 64-bit, architectures.  Essentially Galeon
> should be big-endian and 64-bit clean, but we just can't test it and
> have to rely on others to report back to us.

Just wanted to let you know that galeon 1.3.10, compiled from the fedora
source rpm builds and runs just fine (using the mozilla rpms compiled
from fedora sources) on my PowerBook G4 under Yellowdog.  No issues
there at all.  Appreciate your hard work.

Michael

> 
> 
> > 1. A lot of the gnome libraries required by galeon are available in only 64 
> > bit versions so that running the 32 bit version of galeon is not an option.
> 
> Can you check how those libraries and programs using those libraries are
> built, in case there are some things to consider?
> 
> Even better, check how epiphany is being built.  Since it's also built
> against mozilla, you could see if there's something mozilla specific as
> well.
> 
> 
> > 2.  Something about the way galeon ./configure is set up (or works) requires 
> > that I run ./configure with LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib64 since otherwise the 64 bit 
> > code tries to use the 32 bit libraries.
> 
> Our configure script should be pretty ordinary in that regard, are you
> saying that you don't normally need that?  The library path is generated
> for us by pkg-config, we simply assume it's correct.  You might need to
> adjust PKG_CONFIG_PATH to find the settings for 64-bits.
> 
> One thing that might be getting wrong is the contents of
> /usr/lib/glib-2.0/include/glibconfig.h - assuming it's the one that gets
> included.  I'm guessing there could be another one hiding in /usr/lib64
> 
> 
> > 3.  After building and installing 64 bit galeon, I find that a number of 
> > things do not work correctly --
> > 
> >   -- accessing http://galeon.sourceforge.net/ causes galeon to crash
> 
> Plain "it doesn't work" doesn't get us far.   We'll need a stack trace
> with debugging symbols.  For all we know it could simply be mozilla
> crashing underneath ;)
> 
> 
> >   -- although the "Smart Bookmarks Toolbar" and the "Personal Toolbar Folder" 
> > have the "Create a toolbar for this folder" checked in their properties, no 
> > toolbar is displayed.
> 
> Is View / Bookmark Toolbars also set?
> 



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