64bit or not ?

[Youssef Ghorbal]

I agree, it's all a matter of packages... The devel packages are not  
always as up to date as needed (or not as older as needed)... And if  
you have to download libgd for example to compile it from sources, to  
download its dependencies because they are not in the repository  
either...
It's always easy to have libraries ready in the right place...

I'm not againt 64 bit systems. I just expose what happed to me when I  
tried 2 years ago to install Apache + PHP + extentions on a EM64T OS  
(RHEL3)

As Tino Schwarze noted, build systems are now fixed (I hope !)

Regards,
Youssef Ghorbal
Netplus Communication
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On Jan 22, 2008, at 4:52 PM, Jason Ede wrote:

> I've managed to compile PHP on 64 bit FC7 and 64 bit Centos 5. It  
> does take a bit of tweaking with the configure parameters and  
> making sure that the ld.so.conf files point to both the relevant  
> lib and lib64 directories and making sure you've got the devel  
> packages installed (most of that applies to 32 bit systems  
> anyway!), but otherwise seems to work fine.
>
> Jason
> ________________________________________
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [linux-poweredge- 
> bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Youssef Ghorbal  
> [youssef.ghorbal at netplus.fr]
> Sent: 22 January 2008 14:27
> To: Robert von Bismarck
> Cc: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Re: 64bit or not ?
>
> Hello,
>
>         As far as you're using distribution packages (deb, rpms and  
> so) for
> software you are installing on 64bit machines every thing is allright.
>         But, if you compile your own softs from sources, you are  
> going to
> regret 64bits systems with their /lib and /lib64 directories. Some
> libriairies are in the first and others are in the second and you are
> going to patch your ./configure and your Makefiles... I tried to
> compile PHP (with almost all extentions) on a RHEL EM64T system and
> didn't succeeded.
>
> Regards
> Youssef Ghorbal
> Netplus Communication
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> On Jan 16, 2008, at 5:11 PM, Robert von Bismarck wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Not really Dell-Specific, but here goes.
>> We have a couple NFS servers, that serve mailboxes to our mailservers
>> from a SAN. Those servers are old-ish 2850 dual-xeon 2.8Ghz boxes
>> running Centos4.5 with a coupls fibrechannel adapters.
>> These are getting a little bit loaded so we're looking at replacing
>> those with some quadcore 1950 with 8Gb ram, and now we're not sure
>> whether to go the 64bit route or not.
>>
>> Any hints/pointers/opinions/experiences will be welcome.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Robert von Bismarck
>> Senior Systems Engineer
>> VTX Services SA
>>
>>
>>
>>
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