Re: Problems on AMD64 with Glib module

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Saturday, January 10, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Ross McFarland wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 09:33, Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> > It seems someone here in PLD have already found the problem and fixed 
> > it
> > for me:
> >
> > (14:39) <+ABW-1> qboosh * SPECS/glib2.spec:
> > (14:39) <+ABW-1> - added g_bit-64bit patch from glib CVS (for
> > g_bit_{l,m}sf on 64-bit archs);
> > (14:39) <+ABW-1>   fixes g_log() duplicating messages and thus 
> > perl-Glib
> > tests on amd64
> > (14:39) <+ABW-1> - release 3
>
> we've found quite a few bugs in gtk+, with our perl regression tests,
> which is pretty cool.

and, it looks like the io channel bug is also in glib, but not specific 
to x86-64.  it's actually an outright bug, and works on x86 only by 
chance.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131076

many thanks to yosh.  i owe him a beer.

we'll put version guards in the tests to skip them on old versions.  of 
course, perhaps TODO sections may be better, since people may have 
patched versions of the old libraries, as you're seeing.


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