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From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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Subject: Re: Is it safe to modify a port's makefile
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On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 07:43:24PM -0700, Caleb Stein wrote:
> I asked this question a while ago, and I received a few confusing  
> answers.  Here is my question again:  The Wine port will only build on  
> i386.  I have amd64.  I want to install Wine.  Is it safe to modify  
> Makefile to allow it to build on amd64?
> Please, just answer yes or no.

Yes you can try, but it won't work. You'll hit a point where it will
complain about an illegal assembler instruction.

What will work is detailed at:
  http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine#head-6963d527c173e57b1567e881305b544d33435b6d
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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