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

[Wu Zhou <woodzltc at cn dot ibm dot com>]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> 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.

Thanks.  I am not sure how to build Java-GNOME from CVS yet.  But I will find a 
chance to have a try.

> > > 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.

That is good.  Is there anyway for me to know your progress on that?  I am 
very interested in knowing how these testsuite work in x86-64.

Regards
- Wu Zhou