64bit capability bug

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Igor Brezac wrote:
> You cannot compile cyrus 64-bit and use 32-bit Berkeley or any other libs.

Indeed. You usually can not mix 32-bit libs with 64-bit ones or 64-bit apps,
unless you take very great pains to do so, or the OS does this for you (most
don't), AND your platform supports it (most don't).  The ABI gets in your
way.

> There is a problem with berkeley db, or at least data files created 
> with 32-bit binaries are not compatible with 64-bit.  (I noticed this with 
> sleepycat 4.3.21, I have not tried 4.3.27 yet)

*Yuck*.  One has to dump it then recreate from the dump, then?

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