Extras/x86 64Status

Common Build and Packaging Problems on x86_64 and how to solve them

 * Pointer / int problems: on x86_64, pointers are long, not int. See bug 158646 for an example of how to solve this problem.
 * 64bit libraries live under /usr/lib64: if you use "%configure; make ; %makeinstall", etc, you should be ok.

ToDo List (most of this normally should have a bug report in bugzilla assigned)

 * mknbi: Should we copy the i386 one over to the x86_64 tree? Probably a x86_64 version is not very interesting; Someone who knows this stuff should llok into it.
 * are there other i386 packages that might be interesting for the x86_64 tree?

General Status
Packages that are missing in x86_64-fedora-extras because...


 * ...they are only of interest for i386:
 * atitvout
 * configure-thinkpad
 * i8kutils
 * lrmi
 * vbetest
 * s3switch
 * tpctl
 * apmiser
 * tripwire


 * ...have deeper problems on x86_64 that probably never get fixed
 * apt
 * synaptic
 * python-psyco


 * ...they have "Exclude Ada: missing because there is no gcc-gnat in x86_64-core