From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 19 11:38:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9580516A407 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:38:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from gateway.cybervisiontech.com.ua (gateway.cybervisiontech.com.ua [88.81.251.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3194213C4CC for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:38:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from localhost (hq.cybervisiontech.com [127.0.0.1]) by gateway.cybervisiontech.com.ua (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF02ED443D for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:37:56 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cybervisiontech.com Received: from gateway.cybervisiontech.com.ua ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hq.cybervisiontech.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ogse+tmX07Ie for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:37:54 +0200 (EET) Received: from [10.2.1.87] (rein.cybervisiontech.com.ua [10.2.1.87]) by gateway.cybervisiontech.com.ua (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C7AEED443B for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:37:54 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <45FE7615.3090606@icyb.net.ua> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:37:57 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070315) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 32-bit/i386 ports/packges on amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:38:01 -0000 I installed FreeBSD 6.2 amd64 and then a lot of amd64 bit packages on top of that. Now I need a browser with java plugin. As I understand there is no browser plugin in 64-bit java (e.g. jdk15). One option that I saw is to use linux browser with linux java. While this is a valid option, I still want to get FreeBSD i386 bowser with FreeBSD i386 java running. As a browser I'd like to get either opera (which is i386-only for freebsd) or firefox; for JRE I'd like either 1.4 or 1.5. I saw a number of questions on this list about installing opera on amd64 and about 32-bit java. But I didn't find any comprehensive answers, howtos, etc. Has anyone succeeded with this ? Has anyone managed to develop a well-defined and maintainable way of using i386 packages (and/or ports) on amd64 ? P.S. Isn't it a little bit ironic that using *Linux* 32-bit packages on amd64 is a supported and easy option, but using FreeBSD i386 packages is a gray, if not dark, territory ? BTW, it seems that various Linux distros have developed ways for easy co-existence of x86 and x86_64 packages. -- Andriy Gapon