+x flag
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I would like to recommend that, for user convenience, the binaries in future Linux downloads of PT come with the +x flag already implemented on the files. I do have to admit though, that this is just me being kinda lazy and not wanting to have to "chmod +x" the binaries every time I update or download.
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you don't have to use chmod you know...
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Simon:Currently, Updates and downloads are packaged in a Windows environment, Linux is only used for compiling.
Simon, just one thing. I have a fix for compiling 64bit on linux with SSE enabled. Have you tried to do it? Did it work for you with the standard makefile? For me it didn't work, as it needed stubs-32. Simple fix was to add -m64 to cflags.
Performance increase, well. I did not notice any. Maybe gcc does it automatically when compiling on 64bit platform. -
Yes I suppose you could just do a right click to +x the binaries. I just use the terminal and 'chmod +x' out of habit. By the way, I'm ESS, whom originally posted this thread. I recently got my initial account issues sorted out and from now on will be posting under the handle of Excimer-Sun-Software.
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@seehp
Well, you only have to set the +x flag once for each binary download. Though I did make a launch script for it in Python so that I could double-click start it from my desktop instead of having to go into the PT directory and double-click the binary every time that I want to start it. And the Python binary start-up is so much cleaner than that for a Bash start script. It doesn't invoke the terminal.
