Calling x86_64 users

[Julian Field]

Please can you try installing DBD-SQLite-1.11 on your x64 boxes and  
confirm that it fails to pass its tests.
Please can you then try the same with 1.12 and confirm that it now  
passes its tests, and doesn't break anything else.

Thanks folks!


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> From: David Lee <t.d.lee at durham.ac.uk>
> Date: 19 July 2006 12:02:47 BDT
> To: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: MailScanner: FC5 AMD64 install woe
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> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Ah! Many thanks.
>> Please can you just double-confirm for me that
>> a) 1.11-1 doesn't work on x86_64
>> b) 1.12-1 does work on x86_64.
>
> OK.
>
> Have just downloaded "DBD-SQLite-1.11.tar.gz" and "DBD- 
> SQLite-1.12.tar.gz"
> from CPAN and tried on "i686" (FC3 and FC5) and "x86_64" (FC5).
>
> "make test" was consistently good on 1.12, but failed on (only) the
> combination of x86_64 and 1.11 (i.e. the combination I had reported).
>
> Put another way:  1.12 fixes the x86_64 problem and still succeeds on
> others.
>
> So it would seem to be a good migration (based on that sample size  
> of 3!).
>
> By all means get other people (with other environments) to check  
> both the
> x86_64 improvement and any possible retrograde aspects.
>
> Best wishes.
>
>
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Julian Field
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