[esp-r] Re: prj: segmentation fault

[Anton Driesse]

Hi,

I'm just in the process of installing on a Sunblade 2500 with 64-bit SPARC processors.  Am I asking for trouble?  I don't really have the time or expertise for debuggging right now.  Any advice?

Best regards,

Anton

On 14-Feb-2007 7:23 AM, Jon Hand (clcv10) wrote:
> 
> A recent question about ESP-r and 64 bit compiling.....
> 
>> I have just downloaded and compiled ESP-r on a FedoraCore 6 OS using g77.
>> It is a dual processor 64bit machine
>> When complied for GTK it works very well
>> When compiled for X11, and I run the command “prj” it briefly opens 
>> the project manager window (<<1second) and then says “Segmentation 
>> fault” in my terminal
>> This occurs for any of the binaries (e.g. “bps”).
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>  
>>
>> I also am running it on a single processor 32bit machine with Fedora 
>> Core 6 and the X11 version works fine.
> 
> Testing is underway to ensure that ESP-r works on 64-bit computing 
> platforms.
> At this point there are numerical issues with  64-bit environments which 
> have
> yet to be resolved. There is not yet a consensus in the ESP-r 
> development community
> to recommend using ESP-r on 64 bit platforms.
> 
> Previous posts have also talked about work underway to prove that the newest
> GCC compilers (4.1.1 onwards) pass the validation tests.
> 
> It should be possible for someone who has a 64 bit platform to Install
> esp-r with debugging on and to run the executable within a debugging 
> environment
> such as gdb or ddd and track down the location where the segementation
> falult is happening.
> 
> -ESRU
> 
> 
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