Re: [q-lang-users] A question and a plea for help.

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Hi Andrew,

Andrew Berg wrote:
> First the question.  I see in the archives for q-lang-devel that 
> someone  was working on amd64 bit support.  Does this work?  Has anyone 
> tried?  Is  there interest in me working on it?

Yes, everyone would be happy if Q worked on 64 bit, especially me. ;-) 
Thomas Pasch has been working on it for a while, but apparently he gave 
up for now. Maybe you can contact Thomas and ask whether you can work on 
this together. I'll try to help as much as I can, given that I don't 
have an AMD64 (yet) to test.

> Second, the plea for help.  I try to compile on my Ubuntu (don't ask)  
> Hoary Hedgehog (I think) on AMD64, and get:

The readline library needs some terminal interface to work with, ncurses 
or something like that. I think that termcap might be a fallback option 
if nothing else is found.

But configure shouldn't attempt to build the bundled readline at all if 
you have it on your system. (You probably have, just make sure that the 
corresponding development package is installed as well.) If the readline 
header file or lib is in some non-standard location, you can use the 
--with-rl and --with-rl-includes options to tell configure where to 
look. See configure --help for a description of those options.

> I consider myself a reasonably competent programmer, but I really  
> #!@@#%'ing hate libtool and refuse to go near it on moral and  
> philosophical grounds.  (No, really I'm just lazy and a bit afraid of 
> it,  but the other one sounds better.)

Yeah, libtool is a beast. ;-) But nevertheless it's still the only beast 
that I'm aware of which provides cross platform shared libraries/dlopen 
support.

HTH,
Albert

P.S.: I'll be away for the rest of the week, so I might not be very 
responsive to emails, but I'll try to catch up when I'm back home on Monday.

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
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