Unison 2.40 in Stretch

Başar Alabay

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Oct 28, 2017, 6:33:15 AM10/28/17

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Hello,

I tried and tried … nothing to do.

Is there ANY chance to install an explicit version 2.40 of Unison under
Raspbian Stretch? My other desktop machines use Unison 2.40 and are
defintely stucked to that. So I cannot use 2.48. Unison-all did not
help. I could not solve this problem :-(

Cheers
B. Alabay

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Başar Alabay

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Oct 28, 2017, 6:42:32 AM10/28/17

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Başar Alabay wrote:

A try of self-answering:

I installed
http://www.crutzi.info/sites/default/files/unison-2.40.102-static-armel.zip
from http://www.crutzi.info/unison/binary/armel under /usr/local/bin …
that seems to have solved my problem. Though its armel instead of armhf.

Was this right? Wrong? Any better hints?

Başar Alabay

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Oct 28, 2017, 12:28:04 PM10/28/17

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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 10:42:31 +0000 (UTC), Ba?ar Alabay <ala...@gmx.net>
> declaimed the following:

>
>>Ba?ar Alabay wrote:
>>
>>A try of self-answering:
>>
>>I installed
>>http://www.crutzi.info/sites/default/files/unison-2.40.102-static-armel.zip
>>from http://www.crutzi.info/unison/binary/armel under /usr/local/bin …
>>that seems to have solved my problem. Though its armel instead of armhf.
>>
>>Was this right? Wrong? Any better hints?
>>
>

> Well -- what are the odds of a file synchronization utility doing
> significant floating point operations? The "hf" means the code is designed
> for processors with a hardware floating point unit, whereas "el" emulates
> floating point using a library.

So what does that mean? Problematic or not?

> The other choice may be to download the /source/ archive, and build
> your own version on the RPi.

I’d prefer not to. On my Macs yes, but not on the Rpi.

robert wolfe

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Oct 28, 2017, 7:54:09 PM10/28/17

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On 10/28/17, =?UTF-8?Q?Ba=C5=9Far?= Alabay said the following...

=A> > The other choice may be to download the /source/ archive, and bu
=A> > your own version on the RPi.
=A>
=A> I’d prefer not to. On my Macs yes, but not on the Rpi.

Hmm, not much difference in my experience (I've had a Mac as well and
building from source isn't that difficult.

Başar Alabay

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Oct 29, 2017, 5:33:08 AM10/29/17

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robert wolfe wrote:

> On 10/28/17, =?UTF-8?Q?Ba=C5=9Far?= Alabay said the following...
>
> =A> > The other choice may be to download the /source/ archive, and bu
> =A> > your own version on the RPi.
> =A>

> =A> I???d prefer not to. On my Macs yes, but not on the Rpi.

>
> Hmm, not much difference in my experience (I've had a Mac as well and
> building from source isn't that difficult.

On OSX 10.7 I use Macports.

If I read this:
https://www.devolve.net/blog/2015/10/13/unison-dependency-hell/

I think it’s better not to touch.

Is it dangerous to use the armel version? Is there any 2.40 armhf binary
to load?

I once tried to build a UI-version of a newer Unison on OSX, it was not
to manage. With OSX 10.7.5 I only can use the present 2.40.69 version
that is done static.