From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 20 07:03:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB5BD16A420 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:03:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pscherf@acm.org) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc14.comcast.net [216.148.227.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BFB143D49 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:03:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pscherf@acm.org) Received: from siriusi (c-24-18-205-13.hsd1.wa.comcast.net[24.18.205.13]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <200601200703210140024b9ae>; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:03:21 +0000 From: Paul Scherf Organization: The Scherf Family To: ports@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:53:56 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601192253.56947.pscherf@acm.org> Cc: Subject: icon for AMD Opteron X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:03:22 -0000 Hello Mr. Ports, (-: I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT on a machine with AMD Opteron processors in 64-bit mode. (Sometimes I update every couple weeks. Sometimes I wait a couple months.) I'm a fan of the Opteron. I'm a fan, of sorts, of the icon programming language. I see that /usr/ports/lang/icon (the Icon programming language) is marked: ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= alpha i386 I built an older version of the icon port several months ago (I commented out the ONLY_FOR_ARCHS line. I don't remember if I had to do anything else.), and the simple icon programs I tried seemed to run just fine, but I can imagine there might be some assembly language hidden in there somewhere to implement some icon feature I did not try. Is there a way I can find out whether amd64 is not included because some part of it is known not to work, or just no one tried it on amd64? I might be interested in fixing some things to get them to run on amd64. About the time I last built icon I tried to follow the instructions in the docs about submitting patches for ports, but my email was rejected. Is there someone at FreeBSD.org interested enough in the icon port (or things amd64) to answer my question and consider at any patches I come up with? The MAINTAINER= ports@FreeBSD.org makes me think the answer might be "No.". Paul -- Paul Scherf pscherf@acm.org