[LAU] building Freecycle for x86_64 ?

[Florian Schmidt]

On Thursday 07 June 2007, Dragan Noveski wrote:
> Florian Schmidt wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 June 2007, Dragan Noveski wrote:
> >> i don't know anything about 64bit-debian, i am on 32-bit lenny here, but
> >> often, if appi is requiring qt4, i have to change the synlinks in
> >> /usr/bin which here are normally showing to /usr/share/qt3/bin.
> >>
> >> those are:
> >>
> >> /usr/bin/designer
> >> ............/lrelease
> >> ............/lupdate
> >> ............/moc
> >> ............/qmake
> >> ............/uic
> >>
> >> simply 'rm /usr/bin/moc' and than 'ln -s /usr/share/qt4/bin/moc
> >> /usr/bin/moc ....
> >>
> >> not sure, but perhaps it helps!
> >
> > Actually debian has an "alternatives" system which manages these
> > symlinks. You can install e.g. the package galternatives [or something]
> > and with it you can select e.g. which gcc version to use, or what moc or
> > qmake :)
>
> i ve just got it - looks nice!
>
> >  There surely is
> > some commandline tool way for doing this, too, but i only use
> > galternatives and i don't like reading docs ;)
>
> at the command line it can be done with sth. like :
> 'export CC=gcc-3.3 CPP=cpp-3.3 CXX=g++-3.3'

True, but this only works for Makefiles which e.g. don't have the compiler 
name hardcoded (Ok, i admit in these days of autotools most shouldn't). The 
nice thing about the alternatives system is that the link /usr/bin/gcc then 
actually points to the right version. So it should work for more packages 
than the "standard" way.

> don't know how it works for qt, but for lazy guys like us, galternative
> looks better!!

BTW: Of course it might be that the OP's problem is completely orthogonal to 
this issue. He never posted the error messages, so it's hard to tell.

:)

Regards,
Flo


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