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Date:      Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:51:58 -0300
From:      Fernando Schapachnik <fernando@schapachnik.com.ar>
To:        Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Skype on FreeBSD / amd64  - what's the trick?
Message-ID:  <20051231125158.GA830@funes.schapachnik.com.ar>
In-Reply-To: <20051231122034.599bbf8c.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
References:  <20051231122034.599bbf8c.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>

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En un mensaje anterior, Torfinn Ingolfsen escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to install Skype on my amd64 machine, running FreeBSD
> 6.0-stable:
> root@kg-quiet# uname -a
> FreeBSD kg-quiet.kg4.no 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #1: Thu Dec 22
> 06:29:24 CET 2005     root@kg-quiet.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/QUIET 
> amd64
> 
> Looking at the makefile, I could see that the port was supposed to work
> on both i386 and amd64, adn thought the install would go smoothly.
> Boy, was I wrong.
> 
> It seems that the port net/skype depends on graphics/linux_dri, but the
> latter (linux_dri) is i386 only.
> So, what's the trick to get Skype installed on amd64?

If you have a 32-bit linux environment in place, just comment the 
i386 only line of the linux_dri Makefile. It worked for me and skype 
works fine.

Fernando.



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