[erlang-questions] : : : : build 64bit Erlang on Solairs

[Raimo Niskanen]

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 01:43:52PM +0200, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:28:52PM +0200, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> :
> :
> > > With above steps, I can build 64bit executables and shared
> > > objects. The only issue is erl_rx_driver.so:
> > > 
> > > $  file ./lib/common_test/c_src/erl_rx_driver.so
> > > ./lib/common_test/c_src/erl_rx_driver.so:	ELF 32-bit MSB
> > > dynamic lib SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped
> > > 
> > > The reason is its Makefile is hardcoded, rather than generated
> > > by configure script(there is no Makefile.in under this subdir).
> > > I decide to skip the issue for now.
> > 
> > I will talk to the application responsible about this.
> > 
> 
> I have some feedback. The makefile for common_test/c_src is
> a known problem. But the rx driver is about to be replaced,
> and when that happens the configure/make for common_test
> will be adapted to the OTP build environment.

Update: this will take a while. It will not happen until 
we have a new regexp library. We probably will
have to fix the build for the old rx driver
in common_test...


> 
> The reason is that common_test was first developed
> outside of OTP so its build tools started off as
> completely independent of OTP.
> 
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