freebsd-amd64 Digest, Vol 33, Issue 4

[higgsr at rpi.edu]

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:16:01PM -0500, higgsr at rpi.edu wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I updated my ports collection yesterday and saw updates to mozilla.  So

> I
> > built and installed it.  Everything works great except that I am unable

> to
> > resize the mozilla windows.  I am using fvwm2.	  Have I overlooked

> something
> > or is this a problem with mozilla?	I realize that there are probably
> still
> > a bunch of 64 bit issues with mozilla.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Ray Higgs
> >
> 
> Hi Ray and all,
> 
> Mozilla works well and the window resizes with no problems. Below is what

> 
> I did and some notes on what I'm doing elsewhere.
> 
> You got me to try it. Compiled mozilla-gtk2-1.6_1 with the flags that
> usually
> work. (more later) Works great, very fast and except for the lack of java

> and 
> some forms of javascript, there are no obvious bugs and a good first im-
> pression. GTK has worked in 64bit (AFAIK) from the beginning. If you are
> using Motif, that could be the problem. (QT is also excellent in 64bit.) 

> 
> I run Gnome panel inside KDE. While some KDE apps don't perform that
> well,
> generally a Gnome equivalent one will. While xpdf is a bit shaky and 
> often goes out in a core-dump, gpdf is perfect. For that occasional .doc 

> file, antiword is especially good and very simple. AbiWord compiles but
> that's about all -- very disappointing compared to its i386 counterpart. 

> 
> 
> In general, I use DPIC, -pipe (sometimes with a base -O) and -D__amd64__
> which is sometimes missed in makefiles when needed. For CXXFLAGS -fPIC is

> allays safe and often makes the difference. The classic examples do work
> but can produce allot of warnings, like -fmemoize-lookups -fsave-memoized

> which only (AFAIK) speed up the compile. 
> 
> Sure, nobody needs it, but java would be nice. (for mozilla and beyond) 
> I'm trying but messing with that is madness. Sun certainly must be able
> to help. (and i party with some of Sun's founders) 
> 
> On the kernel hacking, linprocfs works except for the Linux OS info which

> could be pre-set anyways. Linux ABI support 'appears' just around the
> corner
> but 64bit Linux first! (Almost anything Unix compiles 64bit.) While I did

> have a 32bit compat setup, things changed and i question how interesting
> such a direction is. (If 32bit applications can run even close to 64bit,
> then its interesting.) My personal observation is that its easy to make 
> mistakes working 32bit binaries in the amd64 that freeze the machine.
> Per-
> haps there is a standard way to be developed? I've had my Alpha for years

> and are still happy with it today. While it is quite different than CISC
> systems, I've learned lots over the years. (ev56, 21164 @ 533MHz) I'd
> love
> more Alpha's but they are too expensive relative to the amd64.    
> 
> Bill

I originally installed mozilla from /usr/ports/www/mozilla, which gave me
mozilla-1.6_1,2.  Tonight I installed the GTK version (mozilla-gtk2-1.6_1)
and everything works great, including window resizing!	If you had not
pointed out the version that you tried, I probably would have struggled
through the rest of semester (school always seems to consume me) with a
tall, narrow window.

Thanks Bill!

Ray