Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:48:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <ml.freebsd.questions@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports and 64-bit Processors Message-ID: <20080829204754.O5093@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080829171351.GA72763@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <10549b080808290744u659d89f9m4c959a968cbe17e1@mail.gmail.com> <20080829171351.GA72763@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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> > 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 i386 but not on amd64 (like the size of a pointer being > equal to the size of an integer). you may just copy binaries onto amd64 system and they will work in 32-bit mode.
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