[Server-devel] oatslite under RHEL/CentOS x86_64

[Reuben K. Caron]

Does this effect xs-activation installed on XS 0.7?

On Mar 27, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> We just had some fun debugging of oatslite on CentOS 6.2 x86_64. A
> quick note of warning in case someone else is mad or foolish enough to
> try it too :-)
> 
> The short version of it is: bitfrost is currently broken on 64 bits.
> 
> This is what an XS based on CentOS x86_64 needs to run oatslite:
> 
>  - latest bitfrost.i686 (from an XO repo)
>  - python.i686
>  - an extracted python2.6 binary from python.i686 -- I used
> rpmdev-extract and installed the binary as /usr/bin/python2.6-i686
> 
> Using python2.6-i686, oatslite now signs the messages correctly.
> 
> The root cause seems to be a problem in the Pyrex bindings to
> libtomcrypt / TomsFastMath. Maybe ctypes would be better here.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> m
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