From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 2 22:14:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9795016A41F for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 22:14:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6282343D48 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 22:14:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr) Received: from heho.snv.jussieu.fr (heho.snv.jussieu.fr [134.157.184.22]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.13.5/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k02MEIcf056687 ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 23:14:21 +0100 (CET) X-Ids: 168 Received: from heho.labo (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heho.snv.jussieu.fr (8.13.3/jtpda-5.2) with ESMTP id k02MEH6m032551 ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 23:14:17 +0100 (MET) Received: (from arno@localhost) by heho.labo (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id k02MEBkT032546; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 23:14:11 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from arno) Sender: arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr To: Fernando Schapachnik References: <20051231122034.599bbf8c.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20051231125158.GA830@funes.schapachnik.com.ar> From: "Arno J. Klaassen" Date: 02 Jan 2006 23:14:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20051231125158.GA830@funes.schapachnik.com.ar> Message-ID: Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.7.2 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.168]); Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:14:22 +0100 (CET) X-Antivirus: scanned by sophie at shiva.jussieu.fr X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 43B9A5BA.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Skype on FreeBSD / amd64 - what's the trick? 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, 02 Jan 2006 22:14:26 -0000 Fernando Schapachnik 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