Extras/x86 64Status

Common Build and Packaging Problems on x86_64 and how to solve them

• Pointer / int problems: on x86_64, pointers are long, not int. See bug 158646 for an example of how to solve this problem.
• 64bit libraries live under /usr/lib64: if you use "%configure; make ; %makeinstall", etc, you should be ok.

ToDo List (most of this normally should have a bug report in bugzilla assigned)

• mknbi: Should we copy the i386 one over to the x86_64 tree? Probably a x86_64 version is not very interesting; Someone who knows this stuff should llok into it.
• are there other i386 packages that might be interesting for the x86_64 tree?

General Status

Packages that are missing in x86_64-fedora-extras because...

• ...they are only of interest for i386:
• atitvout
• configure-thinkpad
• i8kutils
• lrmi
• vbetest
• s3switch
• tpctl
• apmiser
• tripwire

• ...have deeper problems on x86_64 that probably never get fixed
• apt
• synaptic
• python-psyco

• ...they have "ExcludeArch: x86_64" due to build problems that could not be solved yet:
• cvsup: bug report missing
• mknbi: see also todo-list
• pl: linking problem related to either ELF visibility attributes or PIC https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=149038

• ...something else
• FC3:
• GtkAda: missing because there is no gcc-gnat in x86_64-core

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