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Date:      Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:23:37 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <ml.freebsd.questions@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Ports and 64-bit Processors
Message-ID:  <20080830082337.GA18255@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20080829204754.O5093@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <10549b080808290744u659d89f9m4c959a968cbe17e1@mail.gmail.com> <20080829171351.GA72763@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20080829204754.O5093@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 08:48:24PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> > AFAIK, it is not as much a question of ports being broken, but there are
> > some ports that have 'ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=3Di386' set, e.g. because they are
> > binary-only ports (e.g. flash plugin, nvidia driver) or because they
> > contain i386 assembly code or because the code contains assumptions that
> > are true on i386 but not on amd64 (like the size of a pointer being
> > equal to the size of an integer).
>=20
> you may just copy binaries onto amd64 system and they will work in 32-bit=
=20
> mode.

As long as you also copy the 32-bit libraries that they need!

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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