Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:00:52 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw@uchicago.edu> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386_set_ldt and wine on AMD64 Message-ID: <A02E4C7B-ACCB-4F5D-8D07-4EF6DCCB5F55@uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <17815.8717.493433.495190@bhuda.mired.org> References: <32d8477c0612301410q2aaf9d39k859d242739554fd6@mail.gmail.com> <20061231003901.GA76688@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <3AE0FE6A-EA8A-44A0-98A5-E2D7E28BC38A@uchicago.edu> <17815.8717.493433.495190@bhuda.mired.org>
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It builds, but has interesting bugs. We use it on a printing system that processes 4000 jobs a day, and so even rare problems show up fast. GNU Ghostscript, on amd64, turns some fonts into chinese characters on some documents, GPL Ghostscript occasionally makes them 1 pt high, and AFPL ghostscript seg faults at random. On i386, all these problems go away. -Nathan On Dec 30, 2006, at 9:35 PM, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <3AE0FE6A-EA8A-44A0-98A5-E2D7E28BC38A@uchicago.edu>, Nathan > Whitehorn <nathanw@uchicago.edu> typed: >> One thing you can do (I had to do this for ghostscript, which is >> broken on amd64) > > No, it isn't: > > bhuda% file /usr/opt/bin/gs > /usr/opt/bin/gs: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 > (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 6.1 (601104), dynamically linked (uses > shared libs), for FreeBSD 6.1 (601104), stripped > bhuda% pkg_info -W /usr/opt/bin/gs > /usr/opt/bin/gs was installed by package ghostscript-gnu-7.07_15 > > I'm mostly using it as a printer driver, but ghostview hasn't given me > any problems either. > > Maybe one of the dependencies that my options didn't pick up that > yours did is broken. Or maybe you tried one of other ghostscript ports > instead. Or maybe you tried it when the port was broken (that got me > with openoffice - the tarball the port grabbed by default was > corrupt). But ghostscript has always built on amd64 with no problems > for me. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html > Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more > information.
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