From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 1 11:49:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A78B16A412 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:49:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail25.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail25.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.133.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BFC643D64 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:49:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c58-107-94-118.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [58.107.94.118]) by mail25.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kA1BnkTS028791 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 22:49:47 +1100 Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA19Jxh8001521; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:19:59 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id kA19Jw2u001520; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:19:58 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:19:58 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: Mark Linimon Message-ID: <20061101091958.GD849@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <45475298.5090709@inoc.net> <20061031153134.0f587f84.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20061031204446.GG28093@soaustin.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IMjqdzrDRly81ofr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061031204446.GG28093@soaustin.net> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:49:53 -0000 --IMjqdzrDRly81ofr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2006-Oct-31 14:44:46 -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > - certain ports have i386 binaries (can't be fixed) > - certain ports have i386 asm code (can be fixed if there is fallback > C code) A partial solution to this is to get the i386 emulation and cross- building into better shape. If I really need a binary-only port then I can build/run it in emulation mode. This has bee discussed previously. IMHO, the FreeBSD/amd64 naming conventions make it much cleaner than (eg) Solaris and Linux as long as you only want native-mode apps. Unfortunately, it makes supporting i386 applications much harder (bacause they need to understand they need to look in .../lib32 ISO .../lib). --=20 Peter Jeremy --IMjqdzrDRly81ofr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFSGa+/opHv/APuIcRApbnAJ45MeDywaqhwqzTruCNH4Kt+IVrIQCeNJtj II/1Fry5QA4HwraZqOBQ6Nk= =05Rb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IMjqdzrDRly81ofr--