Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:02:07 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: "Arno J. Klaassen" <arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr> Cc: Fernando Schapachnik <fernando@schapachnik.com.ar>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Skype on FreeBSD / amd64 - what's the trick? Message-ID: <20060103040207.GB54882@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <wp64p246rx.fsf@heho.labo> References: <20051231122034.599bbf8c.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20051231125158.GA830@funes.schapachnik.com.ar> <wp64p246rx.fsf@heho.labo>
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On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:14:10PM +0100, Arno J. Klaassen wrote: > Fernando Schapachnik <fernando@schapachnik.com.ar> writes: > > En un mensaje anterior, Torfinn Ingolfsen escribió: > > > I tried to install Skype on my amd64 machine, running FreeBSD > > > 6.0-stable: ... > > > 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. > > there seem to be serious problems on many configurations with linux_dri > on amd64; > I just made a symlink libGL.so.1 -> libX11.so.6 > in /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib; this make Skype happy (which > does not seem to need reel GL functionality, just a valid libGL.so.1 > to start-up) and prevents my linux-apps which really use GL to bomb. > My $0.02 Patch to /usr/ports anyone? :-) -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is top-posting (putting a reply at the top of the message) frowned upon?
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