Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:13:53 -0700 From: Caleb Stein <caleb.stein@me.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is it safe to modify a port's makefile Message-ID: <op.vfei9f16esa1c5@win7x64.mshome.net> In-Reply-To: <20100706031247.GA79155@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <op.vfehunf6esa1c5@win7x64.mshome.net> <20100706025111.GA78875@osiris.chen.org.nz> <op.vfeidjflesa1c5@win7x64.mshome.net> <20100706031247.GA79155@osiris.chen.org.nz>
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Ok, thanks for the information. Actually after reading more of the page, I just found the unmaintained Wine for amd64 FreeBSD. On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:12:47 -0700, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 07:54:45PM -0700, Caleb Stein wrote: >> Thank you, just the kind of answer I was looking for. Now is the >> opportunity for a more detailed answer. After reading that page, it >> seemed like those instructions would either install i386 over amd64, or >> make your amd64 think it's i386. Now, I may be wrong, but I sure don't >> want my amd64 turning into or thinking it's an i386. > > The instructions are for building wine/i386 on a amd64 environment. > You will end up with i386 binaries, but the base will be under > /compat/i386. Provided your kernel has COMPAT_FREEBSD32, it will be > able to run wine/i386 in /compat/i386/usr/local/bin. > > All your amd64 binaries will still be there from / downwards. > > Cheers.
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