thus Martin Husemann spake:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:58:27PM -0400, Michael wrote:
> 
>>gcc3 on sparc64 definitely has some oddities, remember the trouble
>>around XFree build via xsrc vs. XFree build via src/x11 ?
> 
> 
> Yeah - that was odd, but it got fixed (the in-tree compiler now produces
> the same, better, code that the tools/* compiler did.
> 
> 
>>A LOT of packages are not 64bit-clean. A very popular game is to cast
>>pointers to ints, pass int* as long* or size_t*, assume a pointer is 4
>>bytes long and so on.
> 
> 
> Agreed. It is *very* unlikely that we are talking about a compiler problem
> here. Someone who is interested in db4 should just start debugging this.

hm,

i just fired up a non-production machine (U1 with NEB202-release) to dig
into this.

main reason was to test my cyrus etc. config with db4 backend from
sparc(32) to figure out whether it runs or does not.

if anybody has ideas how to get db4 running, you know my email address ;)

cheers,

timo