Seamonkey patch for 14.2/32bit seems confused, lives in /usr/lib64 ?

ljb643 · 03-03-2020, 04:46 PM

The patch released yesterday for 14.2 : seamonkey-2.53.1-i686-1_slack14.2 is a lot smaller than the previous Seamonkey, so I unpacked it first to take a look. It installs primarily into /usr/lib64/seamonkey-2.53.1 although "file" says they program and libraries are 32-bit. What's going on? Why is it going into the 64-bit library directory, for 32-bit systems?

volkerdi · 03-03-2020, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ljb643

The patch released yesterday for 14.2 : seamonkey-2.53.1-i686-1_slack14.2 is a lot smaller than the previous Seamonkey, so I unpacked it first to take a look. It installs primarily into /usr/lib64/seamonkey-2.53.1 although "file" says they program and libraries are 32-bit. What's going on? Why is it going into the 64-bit library directory, for 32-bit systems?

Yeah, that's wrong. I'll look into what happened with that. Meanwhile, at least it seems to work.

gus3 · 03-03-2020, 07:34 PM

Wow, even a package built "wrong" still works.

I'd say that's beyond talent. It's wizardry.

volkerdi · 03-03-2020, 10:30 PM

OK, corrected packages are up. Thanks again for pointing this out. Also, the reason that the package was smaller is that it was compiled with clang/clang++, which tends to generate smaller binaries than gcc/g++.