Hello again. I have some followup information regarding Rambetter-PAE-FreeBSD-fix.patch.
First, let me just state that cross-compiling a 32 bit binary on a 64 bit FreeBSD system is currently not "supported" (for pretty much any 3rd party software such as ioquake3). In general, cross compiling applications won't work on any released version of FreeBSD. (It actually can work but with a lot of manual tweaking of headers and such.) It's probably possible to cross compile with -CURRENT FreeBSD (an unreleased version) because someone committed patches to this extent earlier this year. So, if you want to compile a 32 bit ioq3 binary on 64 bit FreeBSD, your best bet is to either borrow a 32 bit environment from somewhere or make a chroot environment on your 64 bit FreeBSD system. I imagine that the ioquake3 Makefile can stay the way it is (with regards to cross compiling on FreeBSD); it might actually work on -CURRENT. OK, so I compiled two 32 bit ioq3ded binaries on a 32 bit system, one before my patch and one after the patch. I ran both of these binaries on a 64 bit FreeBSD system. Both ioq3ded binaries were able to start. The binary before my patch segfaulted pretty early, the same as was seen on the PAE kernel system. The patched binary ran fine on the 64 bit system. Also, I imagine that nobody will want to run the 64 bit ioq3 binary (for server at least) on a 64 bit FreeBSD system, because that binary is dog slow (same goes for Linux from what I recall). So, everyone will be running the 32 bit server binary probably. If you don't apply my patch, the 32 bit binary won't run on 64 bit systems. FreeBSD is a great system to run ioquake3 servers on, and I have been doing it for 3 years now. I hope this patch makes it into SVN. Thanks! P.S. I have not done any testing for the client side of things, but if someone needs to step up to the plate for that I may be willing to do it. _______________________________________________ ioquake3 mailing list ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl.
