17 Mar
2006
17 Mar
'06
4:47 p.m.
On Fri Mar 17, 2006 at 09:31:52PM +0100, Yves Potin wrote:
Hello.
I'm about to switch from Debian Sid 32 bits to Gentoo 64 bits. I
have noticed ( http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=specimen ) that
Specimen isn't provided as a package in Gentoo 64 bits. So I have two
questions :
- Does the source code of Specimen compile and permits a normally
usable Specimen under a 64 Bits OS ? (and, if it's the case, does anybody
know why there's no gentoo package ? Lack of interest from any developper
or something, as quite any other audio apps seems to be avalaible under
gentoo ?).
grep KEYW `equery which specimen`
KEYWORDS="-amd64 ~ppc sparc x86"
since its not just lacking amd64 entirely (this only seems to happen for obscure ruby
packages), and has a specifically negative amd64, this means its broken. a quick run to
http://bugs.gentoo.org, and search for specimen, reveals some updated ebuild for 0.5.1,
and a comment: #-amd64: 0.4.5: int/pointer casting.
if you want to try installing it anyways, nano `equery which specimen` and change the
-amd64 to amd64, emerge --digest specimen, and if it works, make a comment on the bug
report that its fixed on amd64 (you proably want to grab the 0.5.1 ebuild before doing
this)
- If I setup a 32 bits chroot under Gentoo 64
bits as it's
documented here :
( http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=2
), will Specimen be usable just as a normal jackd-enabled software, with
jackd running in the 64 bits environment ? More generally, when
encountering an audio software which cannot run in 64 bits, how does it
work with 64 bits jackd ?
64bit jackd can not talk to 32bit apps, afaik. you could run a 32bit jackd, and link with
the other via UDP. or try the ALSA-lib plug:jack, or try using it in 64bit mode and figure
out if theres any bugs ( SClang and PD would both require significant rewriting to work on
64bit mode due to their "VM"-y nature that expects ints to be the same size as
pointers, but most everything else works fine )
Thanks in advance for any enlightenment :).
Cheers,
Y.