Date: 02 Jan 2006 23:14:10 +0100 From: "Arno J. Klaassen" <arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> To: Fernando Schapachnik <fernando@schapachnik.com.ar> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Skype on FreeBSD / amd64 - what's the trick? Message-ID: <wp64p246rx.fsf@heho.labo> In-Reply-To: <20051231125158.GA830@funes.schapachnik.com.ar> References: <20051231122034.599bbf8c.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20051231125158.GA830@funes.schapachnik.com.ar>
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Fernando Schapachnik <fernando@schapachnik.com.ar> writes: > En un mensaje anterior, Torfinn Ingolfsen escribió: > > Hi, > > > > I tried to install Skype on my amd64 machine, running FreeBSD > > 6.0-stable: > > root@kg-quiet# uname -a > > FreeBSD kg-quiet.kg4.no 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #1: Thu Dec 22 > > 06:29:24 CET 2005 root@kg-quiet.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/QUIET > > amd64 > > > > Looking at the makefile, I could see that the port was supposed to work > > on both i386 and amd64, adn thought the install would go smoothly. > > Boy, was I wrong. > > > > It seems that the port net/skype depends on graphics/linux_dri, but the > > latter (linux_dri) is i386 only. > > So, what's the trick to get Skype installed on amd64? > > If you have a 32-bit linux environment in place, just comment the > i386 only line of the linux_dri Makefile. It worked for me and skype > works fine. there seem to be serious problems on many configurations with linux_dri on amd64; I just made a symlink libGL.so.1 -> libX11.so.6 in /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib; this make Skype happy (which does not seem to need reel GL functionality, just a valid libGL.so.1 to start-up) and prevents my linux-apps which really use GL to bomb. My $0.02 Arno
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