[Sumover-dev] RAT and linux 64b

[Douglas Kosovic]

Hi Brice,


I've built rat RPMs for x86-64 Fedora 7, 8 & 9 and x86-64 RHEL 5 from
SVN and they all work. 

If you want to try building a current SVN snapshot RPM, download
rat-4.4.01-0.1.20080730svn.el5.src.rpm from:
  http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/ag3/rhel/5/SRPMS/
then as root issue:

rpmbuild -D "dist .el4" --rebuild rat-4.4.01-0.1.20080730svn.el5.src.rpm

If you were already building from the SVN source code in the last 3
weeks, there was a glibc issue with malloc/free being outside a
fork/exec, which corrupted the command-line arguments passed to the
forked processes. Depending on the glibc version, sometimes it would
fail on x86-64, sometimes on i386. If you check-out now or use the above
SRPM, you should be okay.


Cheers,
Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sumover-dev-bounces at cs.ucl.ac.uk [mailto:sumover-dev-
> bounces at cs.ucl.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Piers O'Hanlon
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 July 2008 4:16 AM
> To: Brice Maret
> Cc: sumover-dev; rat-trap at cs.ucl.ac.uk
> Subject: [Sumover-dev] Re: RAT and linux 64b
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks - yes RAT has been run on 64bits machines - tho I don't have a
> machine running RHEL4_2.6 handy to test it on... Do you get a core
> dump file?
> 
> I've copied your question to our other dev list to see if anyone else
> has a suitable test machine.
> 
> Which version of RAT are you running?
> 
> Piers
> 
> 
> 2008/7/29 Brice Maret <brice.maret at artal.fr>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been using RAT for several months now without any problem,
and
> > I would like to thank you for this good software.
> > Lately, I have been trying to use RAT on a Linux/RHEL4_2.6 running
on
> > an AMD64b architecture. I managed to generate RAT, but it won't
> > startup : I only get an error message from the message bus :
"message
> > doesn't start with preamble".
> > Indeed, the messages between my processes do not seem to start with
> > the appropriate "mbus/1.0" header. I am wondering now if RAT 4.x as
> > ever worked on a 64bits architecture, and if so, what has been done
> > to make it work properly?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >