On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 08:48:24PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > AFAIK, it is not as much a question of ports being broken, but there are > > some ports that have 'ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386' set, e.g. because they are > > binary-only ports (e.g. flash plugin, nvidia driver) or because they > > contain i386 assembly code or because the code contains assumptions that > > are true on i386 but not on amd64 (like the size of a pointer being > > equal to the size of an integer). > > you may just copy binaries onto amd64 system and they will work in 32-bit > mode.
As long as you also copy the 32-bit libraries that they need! Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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