Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:04:17 -0400 From: Jim <stapleton.41@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: 32 bit ports on an AMD64 system Message-ID: <80f4f2b20909010804s44b8f6bbpbae589eafe3022ef@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d873d5be0909010736i4bfa6cb6nab36123b2a066b17@mail.gmail.com> References: <d873d5be0908310811q7974f467xf772f95c662c5e19@mail.gmail.com> <80f4f2b20909010644j7962dc4cub71e725d083072ef@mail.gmail.com> <d873d5be0909010736i4bfa6cb6nab36123b2a066b17@mail.gmail.com>
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> Well, this would certainly help with building the ports safely. But I > think we -- at least I was -- were thinking that you would actually > leave them in the jail, and run them from the jailed environment, so > there would be fewer run-time problems, and no work to transfer them > over. Remember that you've got to ensure that there is no problem > with run-time linking of shared libraries, some of which (in your > current scheme) will have both 32-bit and 64-bit versions with the > same soname. You can probably work around this problem as well, but > it seems easier to leave them in the jail. > With only console stuff, that'd probably be fine, a jail wouldn't be much more tedious than the environment shuffling I'd need to run the 32 bit stuff, however I'll want to do some X11 stuff.. I know you can access X between different users on a machine, but can a jail'ed shell open a window on an X server running from the main machine? I'm not even sure what terms I would use for searching on how to get that working. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton
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