Please remove stale AMD64 supercollider binaries.

[Emmet Hikory]

Please delete all AMD64 supercollider binaries from all supported releases of Ubuntu. This binary has not been built from the source (by direction from debian/control) since at least the Hoary Hedgehog version.

Version 040926-2 depends on libjack0.80 (obsolete) and libstdc++5 (deprecated). Version 20051211-1build1 FTBFS for AMD64 (pointer casts to uint32). Debian bug #276212 has a number of details, but the short answer seems to be removing supercollider from 64-bit architectures. There have been a number of interim releases as well, none of which appear to have survived the autobuilders.

Although patches to the code appear below, there is a design decision to use a long int as two encoded 32 bit values, which breaks on all 64-bit architectures.

This bug also affects ia64, or any other 64-bit port.

[Jérémie Corbier (jcorbier)]

I am trying to prepare a patch for amd64.

[Jérémie Corbier (jcorbier)]

At least, with this patch the package builds on amd64. It needs testing on amd64 and 32bit archs too.

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

    Thanks for the patch, but I believe that there is a design flaw fro 64-bit architectures that has yet to be resolved, based on this message:

http://www.create.ucsb.edu/pipermail/sc-users/2004-September/012951.html

    A brief look through the archives doesn't show any fix, but I'm not familiar enough with supercollider to test it.

[Jérémie Corbier (jcorbier)]

Too bad for me ;) I should have googled a little further before diving into the code...

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

Further searching indicates a possible workaround, involving OSC communication between the client and the server, with a 32-bit client binary.

http://lalists.stanford.edu/lau/2005/03/0662.html

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

Is there any hope of a solution to this, even if it involves having a 32-bit build that can be interacted with by 64-bit programs?

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

I tried updating the above patch to use "unsigned long" to reduce the impact to 32-bit systems, as recommended in http://www.create.ucsb.edu/pipermail/sc-users/2006-April/024798.html, but the post-compilation tests failed. The server still builds, and installs fine, it's only the client that cannot.

[Richard Green (rtg-aapsc)]

Confirmed: Still uninstallable on Kubuntu Feisty daily build 20070322.1 amd_64

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

I can confirm this. Because of this is ubuntustudio-audio not installable.
I'm running an up-to-date feisty amd64.

[rotylee (rotylee)]

libjack0.80.0-0 (>=0.98.1)

ubuntustudio-audio not installable

feisty amd64

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

In order to be solved, this bug needs a procedure by which stale binaries may be removed.

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

Will remove the following packages from gutsy:

supercollider | 040926-2 | amd64

------------------- Reason -------------------
(tfheen) Broken on amd64
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