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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To: Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 04:49:41PM -0800, Astrodog wrote:
> I'm finding a huge number of ports that claim to be i386-only, but
> that seem to work fine on AMD64, even moreso on the Linux compat side.
> Are there any thoughts on how to resolve this?

Yes, if you find that a "i386-only" port works fine on AMD64 send a patch
to the port using 'send-pr'.  Or email the ports@freebsd.org mailing list
with the information.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)