Re: Is it safe to modify a port's makefile

2010-07-06 Thread Bernt Hansson
Caleb Stein said the following on 2010-07-06 04:43: Here is my question again: The Wine port will only build on i386. I have amd64. I want to install Wine. Is it safe to modify Makefile to allow it to build on amd64? You won't be able to build it, but it's safe. __

Re: Is it safe to modify a port's makefile

2010-07-05 Thread Caleb Stein
Ok, thanks for the information. Actually after reading more of the page, I just found the unmaintained Wine for amd64 FreeBSD. On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:12:47 -0700, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 07:54:45PM -0700, Caleb Stein wrote: Thank you, just the kind of answer I was looki

Re: Is it safe to modify a port's makefile

2010-07-05 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 07:54:45PM -0700, Caleb Stein wrote: > Thank you, just the kind of answer I was looking for. Now is the > opportunity for a more detailed answer. After reading that page, it > seemed like those instructions would either install i386 over amd64, or > make your amd64 t

Re: Is it safe to modify a port's makefile

2010-07-05 Thread Caleb Stein
Thank you, just the kind of answer I was looking for. Now is the opportunity for a more detailed answer. After reading that page, it seemed like those instructions would either install i386 over amd64, or make your amd64 think it's i386. Now, I may be wrong, but I sure don't want my amd6

Re: Is it safe to modify a port's makefile

2010-07-05 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 07:43:24PM -0700, Caleb Stein wrote: > I asked this question a while ago, and I received a few confusing > answers. Here is my question again: The Wine port will only build on > i386. I have amd64. I want to install Wine. Is it safe to modify > Makefile to allow i

Is it safe to modify a port's makefile

2010-07-05 Thread Caleb Stein
I asked this question a while ago, and I received a few confusing answers. Here is my question again: The Wine port will only build on i386. I have amd64. I want to install Wine. Is it safe to modify Makefile to allow it to build on amd64? Please, just answer yes or no.