Inquiry: 64-bit Java...

[Kyrin]

I'm curious if anyone has a package that works on here, 'cause I grabbed jre-6u20-x86_64-1.txz from somewhere, installpkg'd it and I'm running into issues with it executing the binary, acting like it was built for another system, but it's definitely a slackware package... Thoughts? Suggestions? Or best of all, solutions?!

[darkside40]

Could it be that 64bit Software is only running under a 64bit OS? 

 

Afaik unRaid runs a 32bit Slackware Kernel, so if you want to use Java you have to use the 32bit Version.

[Kyrin]

Damn... I guess I assumed the kernel was 64-bit 'cause it could see all 8GB of ram in the server, but you're right, the i686 in the uname output should have been the give away... I guess I've gotta look at rebuilding that kernel, 'cause 32-bit java is running, but memory restrictions are killing me...

[BRiT]

Yes, the unRAID distros are all setup using 32bits. Unfortunately you can't just recompile the Linux kernel to enable 64bit-ness. You need to update all the toolsets and tools. It's easier to start off with a 64bit Slackware distro and install unRAID 5.x on top of that.

 

With that said, I do have unRAID 5.x beta running on a 64bit Slackware 13.37 based system with much success. I did have to tweak the md Kernel driver here and there to get it to like the newer Kernel versions, but don't recall having to do that with the Slackware 13.1 distro and kernel.  Here's my earlier steps at achieving this using Slackware 13.1 -- http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5639.0

 

The basic premise is to install 64bit Slackware, then get it 32bit enabled following the steps for Multilib Slackware for x86_64 wiki entry @ http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:multilib then as needed, copy over the possibly missing libraries from the default unRAID distro into the /usr/lib/ location.