On 29 Dec 2012 2:03 AM, "Gerald Pfeifer" <ger...@pfeifer.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, David Naylor wrote: > > # Executive Summary > > > > Over the past years I have been maintaining the wine-fbsd64 port (see > > http://mediafire.com/wine_fbsd64 for more). The port itself effectively > > does static linking (it bundles all the libraries wine needs) with > > scripts to bootstrap the environment to easily use wine from > > FreeBSD/amd64. There is also a script to install the i386 nVidia > > graphic drivers so that wine has access to nVidia accelerated graphics > > from FreeBSD/amd64. > > > > I would like to propose this port gets included in the port's collection > > and would like to get feedback, your comments please :-). > > I would say, go ahead and send-pr the port (without the nVidia parts > for now). > > If nobody else bites within two weeks of you sending it, share the number > with me, and I'll give it a try. I am sure that, once in, there will be > many aspects we'll get feedback on and further tweaks and improvements, > but it seems this is relatively widely used and useful, so let's make > it port of the ports collection and jointly take it from there.
Thanks, I shall do when I get back from holidays. Might have a surprise up my sleeve :-) > > - Can only be compiled in an i386 environment, but the resulting package is > > *intended* for amd64 (although works fine in an i386 environment) > > - If, somehow, there is a recursive calling of wine programs then > > LD_(32_)LIBRARY_PATH and PATH will continue to grow with every iteration. > > - The pkgng ports cannot be installed in an i386 environment as they are > > labelled for amd64. > > My primary question at this point, and to this group, is how to > actually name such a port? > > It probably makes sense to focus on wine-devel, initially, but > given that it's really the 32-bit version that is intended for > the 64-bit OS, how to best reflect that? > > wine-devel-fbsd64 as per the current name? wine-devel-32on64?...?? I think there is precedent for the naming. Consider Linux ports, those ports take the prefix "linux-" to indicate the architecture so I propose "i386-wine-devel" to indicate a port that has binaries from the i386 architecture. Regards, _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
