Debugging "64‐bit issues"

Issues with Patches on SailfishOS in a 64-bit variant (Xperia 10 II, 10 III)

Currently the majority of patches out these are developed and tested on / for 32-bit systems. Some of them have a problem on 64-bit systems where they do not apply due to library paths being different.

This is a known problem, a solution on the patchmanager side is in the works. No timeschedule though wrt a release at the moment

See progress of Patchmanger Issue #71 about this.

In the mean time, this is how to fix such a patch:

1. Verify that the patch is actually failing due to 64bit. Inspect the patch file, if the files changed are under /usr/lib (usually that is /usr/lib/qt5/qml ), this might be the problem we are seeing.
2. Back up the original patch file
3. Verify that for each file under /usr/lib in the patch, a corresponding file exists on your system under /usr/lib64
4. Open the patch file in an editor, and change all occurrences of /usr/lib to /usr/lib64 . Be very careful not to change the format of the .diff file in any other way than correcting the paths.
5. Save the patch and try again to apply it

Note that if you are using patchmanager to apply patches, the patch file must be named unified_diff.patch . No other names will work.

It’s probably best if you start by renaming the patch from /usr/share/patchmanager/patches/patchname to /usr/share/patchmanager/patches/patchname-mine , and edit the corresponding names in the new patch.json file. This way you have both the old and the new versions available and visible in patchmanager.

Original source: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/bugs-in-patches-for-patchmanager/8553/15