[SAC-HELP] sac on 64-bit SMP box

[Brian Savage]

Derek,

That is really good to know.
If you have any problems, send them to the sac-help list.

Cheers,
Brian

On Oct 18, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Derek wrote:

> For what it's worth, I just got the binary and it seems to work fine.
> -Derek
>
> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 11:21 -0400, Derek Schutt wrote:
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> Thanks for your quick response.  I actually read that posting (by  
>> you I
>> think?) in the archives, and it's clear that my post was lacking in
>> information.  In the directory containing the SAC makefile, I  
>> linked cc
>> to gcc32 ("ln -s gcc32 cc"), which presumably would compile it at a
>> 32-bit binary.  However, I run into the problem below with the X11
>> library.  My guess is that I'd need to compile this library with  
>> gcc32
>> too?
>>
>> I don't have the precompiled binary, but have just requested it  
>> and will
>> post back when I get it and see if it works.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Derek
>>
>> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 10:29 -0400, Brian Savage wrote:
>>> Derek,
>>>
>>> There was a posting for me about sac on 64 bit machines, in
>>> particular linux.  If follows here.
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>> SAC is not supported on 64 bit environments, and it will produce
>>> unexpected results.
>>>
>>> I would not say it was a bug, but I would say there are things in  
>>> the
>>> SAC code which are not portable between 32 and 64 bit systems.   
>>> These
>>> things need to be attended to.
>>>
>>> You should be able to run a 32 bit binary on a 64 bit system.
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Two things in specific, the declaration of the sac header on 32 and
>>> 64 bit machines results in different file sizes, and many function
>>> calls are using non-portable, 32 to 64 bit, declaration of pointers.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Brian
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 17, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Derek wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm hoping to install sac on a linux box running 64bit SMP linux
>>>>
>>>>> uname -a
>>>>
>>>>         Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4smp #1 SMP Wed
>>>> Mar
>>>>         1 23:55:52 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>>
>>>> but, in reading the archives of this mail list, it seems SAC won't
>>>> work
>>>> in 64-bit mode, and indeed, when I compile the source version I  
>>>> have
>>>> (05Mar01.sac.tgz), it fails.  Although, it seems to fail because it
>>>> can't find or can't make a proper X11 library:
>>>>
>>>>         [snip from "make" output]
>>>>         cc -w -DLINUX -o ../bin/sac \
>>>>         main/sac.o ../lib/sac.a ../lib/libevresp.a ../lib/
>>>> libSMnonOracleFuncs.a ../lib/libSacOracleStubFuncs.a   -L/usr/ 
>>>> X11R6/
>>>> lib -lX11 -lm -lnsl -ldl
>>>>         /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so
>>>> when
>>>>         searching  for -lX11
>>>>         /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a
>>>> when
>>>>         searching for -lX11
>>>>         /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
>>>>         collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>>         make[1]: *** [SAC] Error 1
>>>>         make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/sac/src'
>>>>         gmake: *** [all] Error 2
>>>>
>>>> Can any one tell me if I should request a 32-bit binary, or if
>>>> there is
>>>> a way to compile it to make it work?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Derek
>>>> Univ. Wyoming
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