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Date:      Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:39:39 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        scottl@samsco.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, zombyfork@gmail.com, cokane@cokane.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, oberman@es.net, obrien@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, mjacob@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/conf GENERIC
Message-ID:  <200612151039.41128.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061214.132111.1102529758.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20061214.110703.-432837811.imp@bsdimp.com> <20061214192036.2BBBE45042@ptavv.es.net> <20061214.132111.1102529758.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Thursday 14 December 2006 15:21, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20061214192036.2BBBE45042@ptavv.es.net>
>             "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> writes:
> : > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:07:03 -0700 (MST)
> : > From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
> : > Sender: owner-cvs-all@freebsd.org
> : > 
> : > In message: <346a80220612140903meecf42av7383632e8173525@mail.gmail.com>
> : >             "Coleman Kane" <zombyfork@gmail.com> writes:
> : > : Just to let you know, there are still a significant number of amd64
> : > : single-core laptops that are still sold these days.
> : > 
> : > I have one myself.  But I'm considering running FreeBSD/i386 on it
> : > because of all the issues I've had getting a working OpenOffice on it.
> : > 
> : > Warner
> : > _______________________________________________
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> : > 
> : 
> : The new release of OOo is SUPPOSED to be 64-bit clean. I have no idea
> : when 2.1 will be ported to FreeBSD, but I hope it will be soon.
> : 
> : OTOH, I see little reason to run amd64 on most systems which don't have
> : large memories or some other specific reason to run it. The binaries are
> : larger and generally performance changes are minimal.
> 
> Last time I tried to build, I tripped over the jdk needing java
> needing mozilla and mozilla was marked as not buildable due to
> security issues.

On 6.x at least, just install the diablo-jdk and build WITHOUT_MOZILLA=yes and 
you should be fine.

-- 
John Baldwin



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