Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:50:05 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Many linux ports needing update to support amd64 Message-ID: <20050107235005.60b48e04@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20050107150038.044adcb7@dolphin.local.net> References: <20050107150038.044adcb7@dolphin.local.net>
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:00:38 -0600
"Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> wrote:
> It seems the majority of Linux ports are still designated as
> "ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386". Now that we have 32-bit Linux emulation for
> amd64, isn't it time we updated these ports to reflect this?
>
> Yesterday I installed the new Realplayer 10 port, but it required a lot
> of editing of dependent ports' Makefiles, which was quite tedious. I
> eventually got Realplayer installed, and it's working, but all this
> manual fudging of Makefiles needs to be done away with.
>
> Is anyone currently looking at this problem?
There is the desire to make the linux emulation run on amd64 hardware.
And there is the desire to update the linux userland to a more recent
version (one which is still maintained by the distributor). ATM we're in
a ports freeze, so no work will hit the tree. Both efforts should
coordinate, else there will be conflicts. Maybe the amd64 part can be
done as a sideeffect of the linux userland update. I intended to work on
the linux userland update now that I've commited the consolidation of
the v7 and v8 mixture, but since I'm aware that trevor@ seems to have
prepared "something" already, I haven't started. Unfortunately I don't
know anything specific.
I suggest to wait until portmgr/core resolved some kind of internal
controversy (I suppose you will notice it by either a mail to
freebsd-emulation with a roadmap for the linux update or by a change of
the maintainer field in our linux infrastructure ports).
Bye,
Alexander.
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