[PlanetCCRMA] chuck on fedora 8 x86_64

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 22:08 -0800, Ge Wang wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 00:11 -0400, francis keyes wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> Has anyone had any luck installing chuck on a Fedora 8 x86_64 machine? 
> >> It's not in the ccrma repository and I've had various problems trying 
> >> to compile it from source.
> >
> > Last I heard it does not work on 64 bit versions of the os... don't know 
> > why.
> 
> That is correct - chuck does not yet work on 64 bit.  The problem is due 
> to 32-bit assumptions made by parts of the code base.  Unfortunate, but 
> true.  64-bit compatible chuck is definitely on the high priority TODO 
> list, but no timeline to completion can be offered at the moment.  Does 
> the PlanetCCRMA 32-bit chuck work on fedora 8 x86_64?  If not, a potential 
> workaround may be to target/compile chuck for 32-bit, though I believe 
> this requires having relevant 32-bit libraries to link against as well.

I have not tried that, I was sure there would be a 64 bit version real
soon :-) I guess a test could be made of whether the 32 bit version will
install and pull in the appropriate 32 bit libraries. Some libraries on
x86_64 have both versions but I don't know which ones. 

-- Fernando