Removing packages that have broken dependencies in F23 tree

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 06:51:28AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Jerry James <loganjerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Kalev Lember <kalevlember at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> polymake                jjames, rmattes
> >
> > At long last I have been able to fix this.  The polymake maintainers,
> > based on their experience with some unspecified Linux distributions,
> > not including Fedora but including Ubuntu, assumed that all 32-bit
> > perl builds include 64-bit native integers.  However, Fedora's perl is
> > configured so that 32-bit perl has only 32-bit native integers.  The
> > polymake maintainers expressed great surprise that Fedora is so
> > backward that we haven't heard about 64-bit native integers in 32-bit
> > perl yet.  Nonetheless, once the problem was identified, they helped
> > me fix it and promised to add a test for this problem to their test
> > suite to prevent its reappearance.
> 
> Might be worth filing a bug to track/document why we don't have the
> 64bit ints on 32 bit perl.

Debian uses `Configure -Duse64bitint' which seems to be the key.

I've written quite a few Perl programs where I've had to tell the end
user that they must use a 64 bit platform.  Didn't realize until now
there was a way to configure 64 bit ints on a 32 bit platform.

Rich.

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