Gnome 2.4 works for me on amd64. I've not experienced any major problems with it yet, and I didn't have to do anything too special to get it working. The only thing worth mentioning is that I had to remove the symlink /usr/lib/librt.so.1, which is cruft left over from the amd64 stage1 tarball. It shouldn't be a problem once we have updated stages for amd64. Before removing this link, I was getting runtime link errors. I'm looking for confirmation from others that are successfully running gnome 2.4 so it can eventually be unmasked on amd64.
arch leads should do that, not us. I don't have an amd64.
gnome 2.4 on amd64 is extremely unstable. please provide an exact list of dependancies you installed (emerge -ep gnome) and I'll evaluate this weekend, and see if I can get it to work, with stability. If I can, I'll add ~amd64 to the packages that do not currently have those flags. -Brad
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Please note, I compiled all gnome related packages WITHOUT -fPIC
ok, well, gnome-2.4 is working fine for me now ... not sure what it was exactly, but reinstalling all the packages now make for a stable gnome-2.4 desktop. I think the first time I compiled it I was using gcc-3.3, so perhaps it was a binutils/gcc3.3.1 update that solved the problems. none the less, I've committed it.
