Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 05:22:02 -0600 (CST) From: James Van Artsdalen <james@jrv.org> To: 039320p@acadiau.ca Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a few questions about ports Message-ID: <200401221122.i0MBM2tW020091@bigtex.jrv.org> In-Reply-To: <1074721460.400ef2b452e09@webmail.acadiau.ca> (message from Murray Patterson on Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:44:20 -0400) References: <1074721460.400ef2b452e09@webmail.acadiau.ca>
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> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:44:20 -0400 > From: Murray Patterson <039320p@acadiau.ca> > > I'm trying to get octave, scilab and emacs working for my machine. The first thing to do is search http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64 and see if someone else has gotten the port to work. There is a patch for emacs in there. The authors of octave or scilab may know of someone already working on the issues for AMD64. If no one has a fix you should probably send the port maintainer a note describing what happened so they can tag the port as not working under AMD64. I did send my emacs changes to the port maintainer but I don't know if they have appeared yet or not. As a rule of thumb I look to see if a program runs on Alpha. If so then it's likely that most of the tedious work in pointer/int and varargs has already been done. PS. "cvsup" is still a problem. Peter Wemm has one that works in text mode and you should use it to update you ports tree. Search the mailing list archive for the URL for it.home | help
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