Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 19:54:09 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> To: Lars Eighner <portsuser@larseighner.com> Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: using i386 ports on amd64 Message-ID: <20120602095409.GE56049@server.rulingia.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206020347120.56838@abbf.ynefrvtuareubzr.pbz> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206020347120.56838@abbf.ynefrvtuareubzr.pbz>
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--GyRA7555PLgSTuth Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2012-Jun-02 03:47:43 -0500, Lars Eighner <portsuser@larseighner.com> wro= te: >I was a little bewildered to discover my machine was amd64 when >it had two Celeron processors.* An amd64 CPU can run either FreeBSD/i386 or FreeBSD/amd64. It's up to you which variant to run. You can run i386 code on FreeBSD/amd64 but there are some tricks to get it to work if you need non-base libraries. >works on the corporate level, but that left a number of things I use >stranded as > >ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=3D i386 > >among them graphics/zgv. Normally "ONLY_FOR_ARCHS" implies that the port relies on a binary blob or includes CPU-specific code so it won't (can't) build on any other architecture. In the case of graphics/zgv, there's no reason given. It's possible that's an error on the part of the original submitter. >Because I am a life-on-the-edge I have discovered that some of them actual= ly >will compile and run on this machine, and in particular that once I subver= ted >the ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=3D graphics/zgv got recompiled and reinstalled during t= he >PNG bump which we are all having fun with right now. > >So have I armed a ticking time bomb that will somehow blow up an orphanage >somewhere down the road? That depends why it was marked "ONLY_FOR_ARCHS" but if it builds and runs then it'll probably be OK. --=20 Peter Jeremy --GyRA7555PLgSTuth Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk/J4sEACgkQ/opHv/APuIcjjQCeK40Hb5IBwotYerCzwQ5eGJ4v a6YAnRisJVsLGazm7sVtlJ4OzoV/5cGy =PN0J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GyRA7555PLgSTuth--
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