Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:17:35 +0100 From: Adriaan de Groot <adridg@cs.kun.nl> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a few questions about ports Message-ID: <200401212317.40273.adridg@cs.kun.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040121215816.GB21939@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <1074721460.400ef2b452e09@webmail.acadiau.ca> <20040121215816.GB21939@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Wednesday 21 January 2004 22:58, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:44:20PM -0400, Murray Patterson wrote:
> > I'm trying to get octave, scilab and emacs working for my machine.
>
> The ports collection contains ports which worked on at least one of
> the 5+ FreeBSD architectures at some time in the past. There is a
The ports collection for amd64 is wonky at best right now. Some things will=
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compile and then fail, some won't even compile. YMMV, and as Brooks points=
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out, the metadata is not up-to-date for amd64 (perhaps because not all the=
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ports have even been tried yet).
Emacs is LISP. LISP is evil. Your average LISP interpreter wouldn't think=20
twice about randomly shuffling the 32 bits in an int to get a pointer to a=
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memory allocation node. That said, I believe James van Artsdalen had some=20
success getting emacs up and running, check the archives of this group.
Many other compile issues can be dealt with fairly simply. pointer-to-int=20
casts show up easily and generally you can replace int by long in the=20
datastrcutures and things will work out OK (though binary file format=20
compatibility is toast then).=20
va_alist and friends are a lot harder to deal with (POSE, the Palm Emulator=
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has this problem).
In the end, your best bet is to muck about in work/ in your ports tree, sor=
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it out yourself, and mail the port maintainer and possibly the upstream as=
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well. Failing that, sending accurate compile-failure logs can sometimes hel=
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too.
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pub 1024D/FEA2A3FE 2002-06-18 Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org>
If the door is ajar, can we fill it with door-jamb?
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