gnucash on alpha
Thomas Bushnell BSG
tb at becket.net
Fri Aug 11 15:57:33 EDT 2006
Here is a list of the differences between a successful Debian build of
gnucash for powerpc and for alpha. I have no idea which of these may
be significant, but perhaps one of them will produce an "aha! that
can't be right" from another developer.
The only thing that leaps out at me is that the alpha build is
including qthreads, and the powerpc build is not. This makes sense,
because qthreads works on i386 and alpha, but not powerpc. Or perhaps
qthreads doesn't actually work on alpha!
Thomas
build and host system type
PowerPC: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
Alpha: alphaev68-unknown-linux-gnu
Maximum length of command line arguments:
PowerPC: 32768
Alpha: 65536
Byteordering
PowerPC: big endian
Alpha: little endian
qt_null
PowerPC: Found in neither -lqthreads nor -lqt
Alpha: Found in -lqthreads
guile libraries:
The same, except that Alpha has qthreads and pthread; PowerPC does not.
g-wrap libraries
The same, except that Alpha has qthreads, pthread, and ffi; PowerPC does not.
_FILE_OFFSET_BITS for large files:
PowerPC: 64
Alpha: none needed
CFLAGS:
Alpha has -mieee; PowerPC does not.
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