installing the sup MUA on 64bit arch linux 1
You’ll probably get here from a google search on trying to figure out how to get sup running on your arch box that was recently upgraded to ruby 1.9. sure it hurts, but it’s progress! Pick a different distro if you don’t wanna play!
Getting sup running, quick and dirty and highly time dependent:
installing the ferret gem
gem install sup will fail miserably, first you’ll find that “ferret” isn’t installing. This problem has been solved, sure would be nice to get this accepted up stream :/
installing ncurses
try again, now ncurses ain’t installing!
here’s some steps that should work:
$ gem fetch ncurses $ gem unpack ncurses-0.9.1.gem $ ruby extconf.rb $ patch -p1 < ~/ncurses_ruby_1.9.patch $ make $ sudo make install
Here’s the contents of ncurses_ruby_1.9.patch:
--- ncurses-0.9.1.orig/form_wrap.c 2009-09-24 10:53:41.000000000 -0600
+++ ncurses-0.9.1/form_wrap.c 2009-09-24 10:52:02.000000000 -0600
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@
*/
static VALUE rbncurs_m_new_form(VALUE dummy, VALUE rb_field_array)
{
- long n = RARRAY(rb_field_array)->len;
+ long n = RARRAY_LEN(rb_field_array);
/* Will ncurses free this array? If not, must do it after calling free_form(). */
FIELD** fields = ALLOC_N(FIELD*, (n+1));
long i;
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@
rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "TYPE_ENUM requires three additional arguments");
}
else {
- int n = RARRAY(arg3)->len;
+ int n = RARRAY_LEN(arg3);
/* Will ncurses free this array of strings in free_field()? */
char** list = ALLOC_N(char*, n+1);
int i;
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@
* form_field
*/
static VALUE rbncurs_c_set_form_fields(VALUE rb_form, VALUE rb_field_array) {
- long n = RARRAY(rb_field_array)->len;
+ long n = RARRAY_LEN(rb_field_array);
/* If ncurses does not free memory used by the previous array of strings, */
/* we will have to do it now. */
FIELD** fields = ALLOC_N(FIELD*, (n+1));
@@ -1123,7 +1123,7 @@
VALUE argc = rb_funcall(proc, rb_intern("arity"),0);
VALUE args = get_proc(field, FIELDTYPE_ARGS);
if (args != Qnil) {
- if (NUM2INT(argc)-1 != RARRAY(args)->len) {
+ if (NUM2INT(argc)-1 != RARRAY_LEN(args)) {
char msg[500];
snprintf(msg, 500, "The validation functions for this field type need %d additional arguments.",NUM2INT(argc)-1);
msg[499]=0;
the rest…
First, clone yourself a copy of sup from the gitorius hosted repo:
git clone git://gitorious.org/sup/mainline.gitAnd follow the instructions:
- install all gems referenced in the rakefile
- as the author suggests
ruby -I lib bin/sup
Behold! It starts! Now is it actually usable is another question…
chromium on 64 bit (arch) linux
Really not much to write about, it was trivial to do, and feels a hell of a lot faster than the burning fox. Steps?
First, grab the latest build from the chrome buildbot.
Second, probably notice that the chrome binary won’t run for you… missing shared libs? Heeey, me too! Apparently we’re building with certain debug libs here. use @ldd@ to figger out what’s missin, and go create some symlinks:
[lth@clover chrome-linux]$ ldd chrome | egrep \\.[0-9]d
libnss3.so.1d => /usr/lib/libnss3.so.1d (0x00007fe64a846000)
libnssutil3.so.1d => /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so.1d (0x00007fe64a628000)
libsmime3.so.1d => /usr/lib/libsmime3.so.1d (0x00007fe64a3fd000)
libssl3.so.1d => /usr/lib/libssl3.so.1d (0x00007fe64a1cd000)
libplds4.so.0d => /usr/lib/libplds4.so.0d (0x00007fe649fca000)
libplc4.so.0d => /usr/lib/libplc4.so.0d (0x00007fe649dc6000)
libnspr4.so.0d => /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d (0x00007fe649b8a000)
Sunspider reports on my box chromium’s js performance is is 4.87x faster than that of the fox. Don’t get too excited, javascript performance isn’t everything …
TEST COMPARISON FROM TO DETAILS
=============================================================================
** TOTAL **: 4.87x as fast 2619.0ms +/- 1.2% 537.6ms +/- 2.0% significant
=============================================================================
3d: 3.57x as fast 327.4ms +/- 2.5% 91.8ms +/- 10.1% significant
cube: 3.59x as fast 117.0ms +/- 1.1% 32.6ms +/- 22.7% significant
morph: 3.52x as fast 112.0ms +/- 5.7% 31.8ms +/- 14.2% significant
raytrace: 3.59x as fast 98.4ms +/- 2.3% 27.4ms +/- 4.1% significant
access: 10.9x as fast 451.8ms +/- 1.4% 41.4ms +/- 3.4% significant
binary-trees: 17.5x as fast 38.4ms +/- 1.8% 2.2ms +/- 25.3% significant
fannkuch: 14.1x as fast 206.4ms +/- 1.2% 14.6ms +/- 4.7% significant
nbody: 7.44x as fast 148.8ms +/- 0.9% 20.0ms +/- 4.4% significant
nsieve: 12.7x as fast 58.2ms +/- 7.5% 4.6ms +/- 14.8% significant
bitops: 8.84x as fast 367.6ms +/- 3.6% 41.6ms +/- 1.6% significant
3bit-bits-in-byte: 13.9x as fast 47.2ms +/- 1.2% 3.4ms +/- 20.0% significant
bits-in-byte: 9.29x as fast 83.6ms +/- 7.6% 9.0ms +/- 9.8% significant
bitwise-and: 11.1x as fast 135.0ms +/- 7.0% 12.2ms +/- 4.6% significant
nsieve-bits: 5.99x as fast 101.8ms +/- 2.6% 17.0ms +/- 0.0% significant
controlflow: 13.2x as fast 39.6ms +/- 2.8% 3.0ms +/- 0.0% significant
recursive: 13.2x as fast 39.6ms +/- 2.8% 3.0ms +/- 0.0% significant
crypto: 5.11x as fast 160.4ms +/- 0.9% 31.4ms +/- 4.5% significant
aes: 6.08x as fast 64.4ms +/- 1.7% 10.6ms +/- 10.5% significant
md5: 4.44x as fast 46.2ms +/- 1.2% 10.4ms +/- 6.5% significant
sha1: 4.79x as fast 49.8ms +/- 1.1% 10.4ms +/- 6.5% significant
date: 2.33x as fast 175.0ms +/- 2.8% 75.2ms +/- 3.9% significant
format-tofte: 2.59x as fast 79.4ms +/- 4.9% 30.6ms +/- 6.2% significant
format-xparb: 2.14x as fast 95.6ms +/- 1.5% 44.6ms +/- 3.2% significant
math: 5.58x as fast 325.8ms +/- 3.0% 58.4ms +/- 3.6% significant
cordic: 5.49x as fast 125.2ms +/- 2.4% 22.8ms +/- 4.6% significant
partial-sums: 5.55x as fast 134.4ms +/- 4.7% 24.2ms +/- 4.3% significant
spectral-norm: 5.81x as fast 66.2ms +/- 4.1% 11.4ms +/- 6.0% significant
regexp: 18.0x as fast 223.8ms +/- 7.9% 12.4ms +/- 5.5% significant
dna: 18.0x as fast 223.8ms +/- 7.9% 12.4ms +/- 5.5% significant
string: 3.00x as fast 547.6ms +/- 3.2% 182.4ms +/- 3.0% significant
base64: 2.57x as fast 48.8ms +/- 3.3% 19.0ms +/- 8.0% significant
fasta: 4.20x as fast 138.6ms +/- 1.2% 33.0ms +/- 2.7% significant
tagcloud: 3.20x as fast 114.6ms +/- 2.9% 35.8ms +/- 2.9% significant
unpack-code: 2.88x as fast 174.8ms +/- 9.7% 60.6ms +/- 8.7% significant
validate-input: 2.08x as fast 70.8ms +/- 2.9% 34.0ms +/- 2.6% significant
–ll
