POPLOG FOR AMD 64-BIT CPU RUNNING LINUX

THIS FILE IS OUT OF DATE

YOU CAN LEARN ABOUT THE LATEST VERSION OF 64-BIT LINUX POPLOG IN

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/freepoplog.html

Please ignore this old version.

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OUT OF DATE: SEE ABOVE

Updated 19 Oct 2006

news item posted to comp.lang.pop

Waldek Hebisch  writes:

> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:00:06 +0000 (UTC)
> Organization: Politechnika Wroclawska
>
> Some time ago there was a question if Polog works on Intel EM64T
> processors. Now I can report that I just istalled Poplog on
> 2.66 GHz Intel Pentium D processor. The only problems during
> istallaion happend because the machine runs 64-bit Debian and
> X files are in /usr/lib (there was also a Lesstif problem,
> Debian seem to ship an old version of Lesstif).  I did only
> minimal test, but it seems that everthing that works on Amd64
> machines also works on Intel machines.

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Updated 17 Apr 2006
    Please see the news items and the items regarding overcoming
    problems in RedHat and Fedore Core versions of Linux, in

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html

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Updated 11 Jun 2005
    (Re bug with motif linked in.)

This is a test version of AMD64 Poplog (64-bit linux Poplog)

It is based on 32-bit linux poplog version 15.6
        Available here:

        http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/v15.6

The AMD64 version included in this tar file is available in
     http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/v15.6-amd64

That is where updates will be provided.

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The conversion to AMD64 was done by Waldek Hebisch, starting
from Linux poplog version 15.53. His patch file was applied
to the v15.6 sources as described in

     http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~hebisch/poplog/amd64-poplog.html

and
     http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/amd64/

Tests of this system led to various bug-fixes supplied by Waldek
and installed in this system.

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The version of

    pop/com/mkstartup

provided here has been altered to remove -nonwriteable. Users who create
saved images may have to do the same.

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As far as I know only one thing still does not work in AMD64 Poplog.
If it is linked with motif then

    clicking on the 'close' button on graphical windows produced by
    pop11 kills the poplog process instead of simply closing the window.

However if it is linked without motif then this does not happen.
It's not clear whether that is a bug in 64bit motif or a bug somewhere
in poplog.

Nevertheless this seems to be a highly usable version of Poplog, though
if used with graphical tools, like RCLIB it is best linked without
motif.

32-bit linux Poplog v15.6 works with motif on 64bit AMD
Athlons/opterons.


Please report any problems to the poplog-dev email list
AT cs.bham.ac.uk

Very many thanks to Waldek for taking this on.

Aaron Sloman
Mon Mar 14 23:03:35 GMT 2005
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/