Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:56:46 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the recommended LinuxEmulator and kernel that will run skype-devel and maybe Flash9 Message-ID: <20080316135646.31519814@deskjail> In-Reply-To: <20080316115631.GA16341@soaustin.net> References: <20080315080424.13561oymhrersh8g@intranet.encontacto.net> <40994934@ipt.ru> <20080316095023.4a64aecd@deskjail> <200803160129.21065.beech@freebsd.org> <20080316115631.GA16341@soaustin.net>
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Quoting linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) (Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:56:31 -0500): > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:29:15AM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > On another note, skype-1.4.0.118 also requires linux_dri on amd64 as > > will the new version. I see that it's flagged only_for_archs= i386. I > > have verified (so has skype) that it works fine on FreeBSD amd64. > > Can we unflag linux_dri so we're not excluding those users? > > I vaguely recall some discussion about doing that but it being held > off until post-freeze. The question was, once we unflag linux_dri, > does that suddenly enable a bunch of ports to try to be built on > amd64 that we weren't expecting before? If so, someone(TM) needs > to track that so it's not a surprise on the next amd64 package build. It can only enable binary ports (linux ones). As those are mostly i386 RPMs which get extracted, I don't expect any problems (they are already tested for the i386 package builds). At least regarding normal linux ports. I can not comment on some special requirements of some games, but if there's more than a handful of I'm willing to spend s weekend to try to fix the problems. Beech, Boris, are you willing to help out if there are some problems? Bye, Alexander. -- Murder is contrary to the laws of man and God. -- M-5 Computer, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3 http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137
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