Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 10:52:17 +0100 From: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org> To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Many linux ports needing update to support amd64 Message-ID: <20050108095217.GA765@aoi.wolfpond.org> In-Reply-To: <20050107150038.044adcb7@dolphin.local.net>
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On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 03:00:38PM -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? I have filled ports/75852 a few days ago to allow java/linux-sun-jdk14 to install on amd64. It also fixes some other ports such as print/acroread. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/75852 Even though it is a port issue it got assigned to java@ :-/ -- Francois Tigeot
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