From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 03:22:06 2004 Return-Path: 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 1759916A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 03:22:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from bigtex.jrv.org (rrcs-sw-24-73-246-106.biz.rr.com [24.73.246.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE9AC43D46 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 03:22:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from james@bigtex.jrv.org) Received: from bigtex.jrv.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bigtex.jrv.org (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id i0MBM2o8020094 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 05:22:03 -0600 (CST) Received: (from james@localhost) by bigtex.jrv.org (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) id i0MBM2tW020091; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 05:22:02 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 05:22:02 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200401221122.i0MBM2tW020091@bigtex.jrv.org> From: James Van Artsdalen To: 039320p@acadiau.ca 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> cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a few questions about ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:22:06 -0000 > 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.