Hi, I´m a FreeBSD user from 4.0 version to Current (i386 arch). I've recently switched to a amd64 machine and consecuently to the amd64 version of the OS. You claim the amd64 version enjoys "Tier 1 Status", but in the page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html under the point "12.2 Tier 1: Fully Supported Architectures" i read:
"Tier 1 architectures are expected to be fully supported by the ports system. All the ports should build on a Tier 1 platform, or have the appropriate filters to prevent the inappropriate ones from building there. The packaging system must support all Tier 1 architectures. To ensure an architecture's Tier 1 status, proponents of that architecture must show that all relevant packages can be built on that platform." At this moment is not possible to run Wine on a amd64 version of Freebsd due to problems of the amd64 kernel handling segment registers, ldt segments or something like that (too technical for me to explain right but the point is that it doesn´t work). No matter which way you try (port, 32 bit package, etc) there is no report of success as far as i know. My question is: "Is Wine a non relevant port (I don't thik so) or the amd64 version of FreeBSD doesn't meet the requirements to be considered a Tier 1 Architecture ?" Hope you will excuse my poor english. Greetings and best wishes. Julián Rodríguez. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
