From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 22:49:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 649CD16A4CE; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 22:49:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com (mailout04.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 509E843D31; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 22:49:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd03.aul.t-online.de by mailout04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1Cn2vN-0006No-00; Fri, 07 Jan 2005 23:49:41 +0100 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (bRDXKOZbweCKuNNZh0v4CJsuYKpQBq0eeZFaKWl8Sx65XkfcCXusk4@[84.128.205.83]) by fmrl03.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 1Cn2vI-201be40; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:49:36 +0100 Received: from Magellan.Leidinger.net (Magellan.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.1]) j07Mn32Q016732; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:49:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:50:05 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" Message-ID: <20050107235005.60b48e04@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20050107150038.044adcb7@dolphin.local.net> References: <20050107150038.044adcb7@dolphin.local.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.13 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: bRDXKOZbweCKuNNZh0v4CJsuYKpQBq0eeZFaKWl8Sx65XkfcCXusk4@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: 445fb603-6b93-4dd7-b107-2bb087ced47b cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Many linux ports needing update to support amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 22:49:43 -0000 On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:00:38 -0600 "Conrad J. Sabatier" wrote: > It seems the majority of Linux ports are still designated as > "ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386". Now that we have 32-bit Linux emulation for > amd64, isn't it time we updated these ports to reflect this? > > Yesterday I installed the new Realplayer 10 port, but it required a lot > of editing of dependent ports' Makefiles, which was quite tedious. I > eventually got Realplayer installed, and it's working, but all this > manual fudging of Makefiles needs to be done away with. > > Is anyone currently looking at this problem? There is the desire to make the linux emulation run on amd64 hardware. And there is the desire to update the linux userland to a more recent version (one which is still maintained by the distributor). ATM we're in a ports freeze, so no work will hit the tree. Both efforts should coordinate, else there will be conflicts. Maybe the amd64 part can be done as a sideeffect of the linux userland update. I intended to work on the linux userland update now that I've commited the consolidation of the v7 and v8 mixture, but since I'm aware that trevor@ seems to have prepared "something" already, I haven't started. Unfortunately I don't know anything specific. I suggest to wait until portmgr/core resolved some kind of internal controversy (I suppose you will notice it by either a mail to freebsd-emulation with a roadmap for the linux update or by a change of the maintainer field in our linux infrastructure ports). Bye, Alexander. -- If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7