64bit capability bug

[info-cyrus -- Amos Gouaux]

Alex Deiter wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 
>>>> Cyrus IMAP on 64bit arch incorrectly interprets defaults numerical 
>>>> parameters of a imapd.conf: all of them are equal to zero!
>>>
>>> Can't confirm on alpha, gcc 3.3.5:
>>
>> And while I haven't tried with 2.2, Debian has 2.1 compiled for at least
>> ia64, alpha and amd64. It is also possible that the hppa and sparc 
>> ports are
>> 64bit nowadays, too.
> 
> 
> Alpha, IA64, AMD64 is (like i386) a little endian machine. Sparc and 
> HPPA is big endian.
> 
> Cyrus-IMAP 2.1.x and 2.2.x (up to 2.2.3) work fine on sparc64. After 
> 2.2.4 (on 2.2.10) i got error:
> 
> Dec 27 21:23:19 satira nntp[24755]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: fatal region 
> error detected; run recovery

So do you compile Berkeley DB for 64-bit? Haven't tried it yet myself.

At some point will need to do 64-bit though because getting some large 
quota needs for some shared folders.

Amos

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