[REBOL] Re: rebol 3 => 64 Bit problems
From: tim-johnsons::web::com at: 12-Feb-2009 13:10
On Thursday 12 February 2009, Andreas Bolka wrote:
> Excerpts from Tim Johnson's message of Thu Feb 12 18:02:56 +0100 2009:
> > A 64-bit rebol 2 should have been built long ago. If but a few server
> > farms start converting to 64-bit and rebol binaries become inoperable,
> > there will be such a stink that rebol3 will never overcome.
>
> I have REBOL 2 running on several 64-bit machines:
>
> $ uname -m
> x86_64
>
> $ file `which rebol`
> /usr/local/bin/rebol: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
> version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses
> shared libs), stripped
>
> $ rebol -qw --do 'print system/version'
> 2.7.6.4.2
>
> So I don't really see what's becoming "inoperable" here? Neither Linux
> nor Windows has any troubles running "legacy" 32-bit executables on
> 64-bit systems, if necessary. On some Linux systems, you have to take
> some care (e.g. make sure the "ia32-libs" package is installed on
> Ubuntu), but generally that's not an issue.
Rebol certainly was inoperable on my 64-bit kubuntu. I do believe that I
looked at ia32-libs but don't remember and can't reproduce,
since I went back to 32-bit OS.
It would be interesting to see what Mario has to say about your advice.
That's really not the point though. Rebol should take this on proactively,
and publish a solution. That might even give rebol an edge on others.
Tim