Bug 30324

Summary:	32bit blender is not executable
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Giuseppe Ghibò <ghibomgx>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	David GEIGER <geiger.david68210>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	fri
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA8TOO
Source RPM:	blender-2.83.10-3.1.mga8.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Giuseppe Ghibò 2022-04-22 22:31:21 CEST

Description of problem:

The 32bit blender doesn't start. The 32bit blender version comes with a wrapper script which automatically select between a sse (pentium4 and above) or non-sse (pentium) flavours. Unfortunately this script at some point lost the executable permission in the SPEC file, so it's not executable anymore.

How reproducible:

Just type blender from a command line.

Cauldron release affected too.

Comment 1 Morgan Leijström 2022-04-23 20:15:58 CEST

Assigning blender registered maintainer
(who maintain an obscene lot of packages...)

Version: 8 => Cauldron
CC: (none) => fri
Assignee: bugsquad => geiger.david68210
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA8TOO

Comment 2 Giuseppe Ghibò 2022-04-23 22:14:49 CEST

As OT, speaking of blender itself I wonder if it's not worthwhile to consider an upgrade to another lts version for mga8 (e.g. 2.93).

Actually version 2.83 is supported upstream only up to june 2022 (and furthermore there is blender 2.83.20 while we have 2.83.10). See https://www.blender.org/download/lts/2-83/

Only problem is that IIRC latest lts 2.9x version requires at least python3.9 to be compiled, while mga8 has only python3.8. Alternative is to build blender with a bundled python3.9 version.