[imp-dev] Re: LPG on Linux for X86_64 architectures

[Jurgen Vinju <Jurgen.Vinju@xxxxxx>]

Hi Bob,

What about the 32-bit releases? Are they discontinued?

BTW, the "-m32" flag to gcc will allow you to generate one on a 64 bit machine.

Cheers,

Jurgen

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Robert M. Fuhrer<rfuhrer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
>
> Time for a little Eclipse arcania... Put on your boots, folks, this may get
> a bit messy...
>
> Turns out that the binaries I/we had been building on our "newer" server
> (orquesta) were really for 64-bit (x86_64) Linux, but we were advertising
> them as 32-bit (plain old x86).
>
> The only reason this worked at all was that the lpg.generator feature
> manifest was supposed to repeat the platform constraints (os and arch), but
> wasn't, so all of the plugin fragments for all os'es/architectures would get
> installed, regardless of the platform they were actually running on.
>
> People who were running on 64-bit Linux (which is most Linux installations
> these days, it seems) actually got a workable 64-bit binary, though they may
> have had to manually point the LPG builder at it.
>
> The Fix:
>
>  - I created a new lpg.generator plugin fragment project for 64-bit linux
> (lpg.generator.linux_x86_64), and placed the appropriate binary in there.
> This is on the LPG CVS repo on SourceForge, of course.
>
>  - I added a MakeRules variant to lpg.generator.cpp/src, so that it's ready
> to build out of the box.
>
>  - I added the appropriate platform constraints to the lpg.generator feature
> manifest (feature.xml) for each of the plugin fragments.
>
>  - I added the new plugin fragment for 64-bit Linux to the lpg.generator
> feature manifest.
>
> Since this is really about adding support for a "new" platform, I did this
> retroactively for both 2.0.16 and 2.0.17, on both the IMP and LPG update
> sites. I haven't done anything to the source/binary distributions on
> SourceForge. I'll let you take care of those. :-)
>
> Hopefully this will actually take care of install issues people have been
> having with LPG and IMP, but I don't know yet whether this was the only
> source of the problems.
>
> Cheers,
>  - Bob
>
>