Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:29:51 +0100 From: Bill Squire <billsf@curacao.n2it.nl> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: What should be reported and to who? Message-ID: <20040126172951.GA79221@curacao.n2it.nl>
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It has been mentioned that some ports are trivial while others require rewrites of whole sections of C-code. I'm asking mainly about the first question. Some (many?) ports simply build and work if you comment out the #ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386 part of the Makefile as shown. This seems so obvious of a thing to try that I don't see the point in saying anything about it, unless it persists a month or more. Ofcourse if it compiles is not to suggest it works! The most common failures are calling amd64 "x86_64" and using deprecated header files like <malloc.h>. Open-motif compiles fine but is broken. This is why 'xpdf' dumps cores like crazy. Compile it with 'gtk' (aka 'gpdf') and it works fine. Any Microsoft code is crazy to port as this is the company that believed it was "i386 forever" and will fall as a result. (If you like tedious tasks, you will disagree.) Octave and Matlab are important to me and they will be 'hacked to work'. Unfortunately Matlab sources cannot be put online until someone enlightened gets in. Bill PS: We want Java!
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