From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 1 10:58:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23CD516A418; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:58:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from falcon.cybervisiontech.com (falcon.cybervisiontech.com [217.20.163.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D07B513C48A; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:58:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by falcon.cybervisiontech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C59744004; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:54:03 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at falcon.cybervisiontech.com Received: from falcon.cybervisiontech.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (falcon.cybervisiontech.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7FRyOxAj-VtL; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:54:02 +0200 (EET) Received: from [10.2.1.87] (gateway.cybervisiontech.com.ua [88.81.251.18]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by falcon.cybervisiontech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FAAB43C372; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:54:02 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <47299429.4030303@icyb.net.ua> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:54:01 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070803) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Beech Rintoul References: <1193801004.00822110.1193788802@10.7.7.3> <1193844187.00822511.1193831403@10.7.7.3> <4728AB7E.3000206@icyb.net.ua> <200710311145.22970.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200710311145.22970.beech@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jan Henrik Sylvester , multimedia-list freebsd Subject: Re: Skype-1.4 on 6.2 (and 7.0-BETA1) X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:58:28 -0000 on 31/10/2007 21:45 Beech Rintoul said the following: > > Skype positively will not work on FreeBSD 64 bit. The forums are full > of people screaming for a 64 bit linux version and the only success > has been on ubuntu using their 32 bit compatibility layer. Even with > that the results were less than optimal. I'm sure sooner later they > will release one, but getting them to release a 64 bit oss version is > uncertain. If someone is successful at getting Skype to work on amd64 > I definitely would like to know. Ubuntu has a /usr/lib32 dir for this > kind of problem. Maybe someone with some time and libmap.conf foo can > look into it. Beech, I think there is some confusion here: our linuxolator always emulates i386 (32-bit) Linux. So, it should be irrelevant if skype works or not on amd64 Linux. I am talking about FreeBSD amd64 underlying platform, not about 64-bit skype or 64-bit Linux. Insulated by our linux emulation layer skype should not see anything 64-bit. -- Andriy Gapon