Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] FreeBSD buildbot failures

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

LEGO wrote:
> isn't Tiger LP64 too?

Tiger supports a limited LP64 environment, as well as a full ILP32 
environment, *on 64-bit PowerPC* (PowerMac and iMac G5); on 32-bit 
PowerPC machines (such as the machines I have at home and at work), it's 
obviously going to be ILP32-only.

For LP64 testing of Ethereal, all the support libraries (GLib, GTK+, 
Pango, ATK, and so on) would have to be built LP64.  I don't know 
whether the X11 libraries that come with Tiger are built fat, with PPC32 
and PPC64 versions, as I think libc^H^H^H^HlibSystem is built; if not, 
LP64 versions of the required X11 libraries would also have to be built 
- that'd be part of the "limited" in the first paragraph.  Another part 
of "limited" is that few if any frameworks have LP64 versions; that 
might include Core Foundation, which Ethereal uses on OS X to fire up a 
Web browser - it'd build and work without that, but you'd have to set 
the preference for the Web browser command to get menu items that fire 
up a Web browser to work (the "open" command *might* work).