Re: Ports and 64-bit Processors

2008-08-30 Thread Roland Smith
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

Re: Ports and 64-bit Processors

2008-08-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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! binaries means both. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Ports and 64-bit Processors

2008-08-29 Thread FreeBSD Questions
FreeBSD has supported 64-bit architectures for a while now... Alpha and UltraSPARC come to mind--even if Alpha is no longer a Tier 1 architecture. I'm surprised to hear so many of you say that certain ports are broken on AMD64. I would think if they worked on other 64-bit processors they'd work

Re: Ports and 64-bit Processors

2008-08-29 Thread Bill Moran
In response to FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FreeBSD has supported 64-bit architectures for a while now... Alpha and UltraSPARC come to mind--even if Alpha is no longer a Tier 1 architecture. I'm surprised to hear so many of you say that certain ports are broken on AMD64. I would

Re: Ports and 64-bit Processors

2008-08-29 Thread sergio lenzi
Em Sex, 2008-08-29 às 10:57 -0400, Bill Moran escreveu: In response to FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FreeBSD has supported 64-bit architectures for a while now... Alpha and UltraSPARC come to mind--even if Alpha is no longer a Tier 1 architecture. I'm surprised to hear so many

Re: Ports and 64-bit Processors

2008-08-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and UltraSPARC come to mind--even if Alpha is no longer a Tier 1 architecture. I'm surprised to hear so many of you say that certain ports are broken on AMD64. I would think if they worked on other 64-bit processors they'd work on AMD64. Were the ports that are broken on AMD64 also broken on

Re: Ports and 64-bit Processors

2008-08-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:44:10AM -0400, FreeBSD Questions wrote: FreeBSD has supported 64-bit architectures for a while now... Alpha and UltraSPARC come to mind--even if Alpha is no longer a Tier 1 architecture. I'm surprised to hear so many of you say that certain ports are broken on

Re: Ports and 64-bit Processors

2008-08-29 Thread Robert Huff
Roland Smith writes: To see which ports are restricted to certain architectures, try the following command: find /usr/ports -type f -name Makefile -exec grep -H ONLY_FOR_ARCH {} \;|less This returned 643 entries, of which 29 listed a reason. Six of those use assembler

Re: Ports and 64-bit Processors

2008-08-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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

Re: Ports and 64-bit Processors

2008-08-29 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:34 AM, sergio lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Em Sex, 2008-08-29 às 10:57 -0400, Bill Moran escreveu: In response to FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FreeBSD has supported 64-bit architectures for a while now... Alpha and UltraSPARC come to mind--even if