Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 09:08:24 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Krten <root@parse.com> To: torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no (Torfinn Ingolfsen) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XnView on FreeBSD 6.1 AMD64 Message-ID: <200611041408.kA4E8Oj6024637@amd64.ott.parse.com> In-Reply-To: <20061104122007.6c506f64.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> from "Torfinn Ingolfsen" at Nov 04, 2006 12:20:07 PM
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Torfinn Ingolfsen sez... > > On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:08:51 -0500 (EST) > Robert Krten <root@parse.com> wrote: > > > I've been trying to get XnView (1.70) running on AMD64 with FreeBSD > > 6.1 release. > > > > The port is marked as "i386 only", but the author was surprised that > > it wouldn't work on AMD64, and he suggested downloading the > > executable and running it to see what happens. > > This is a binary port, so its hard to "do" something with it if it > doesn't work. :-) > Looking at the port and the web page, it looks like the FreeBSD version > is compiled for FreeBSD 5.x. > I guess that implies that the compat5x-i386 port is needed, and I don't > know if that can be made to run under amd64. I downloaded misc/compat5x and it helpfully chose the -amd64 version :-/ > Perhaps you could ask the author to compile a version for FreeBSD 6 / > amd64? Done. I'll report back here if he agrees so that others can use the port. Thanks, -RK -- Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting, Books and Training at www.parse.com Looking for Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-1 through PDP-15 minicomputers!
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