Re: 64-bit frysk for x86-64 FC-5

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at redhat dot com>]

Wu Zhou wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>  
>
> > FYI,
> >
> > As a result of much hard work from Diego, Sami, Adam and Wu, we've achieved
> > the goal of a 64-bit build of the frysk GUI (Java-GNOME based) running on an
> > x86-64 FC-5 pre-release machine.  We'll be pushing the relevant fixes into the
> > official FC-5.
> >    
>
> That is great, Andrew.  Could you please tell me where I can get the 
> related source?  I'd like to have a try with that on PPC64.
>
>  
At present the fixes are in the Java-GNOME CVS repo, the'll eventually 
appear as RPMs in the FC-5 yum repo.

> > Next is to work through the core and the x86-64 issues that we are now able to
> > expose.
> >    
>
> Could you elaborate a little?  Do you mean that you are going to work thru 
> the frysk-core classes, or run the testcases on x86-64 to see what can be 
> exposed?  Or any others?
>
>  
The latter, work through the testsuite.

Andrew