Re: Is it safe to modify a port's makefile

2010-07-06 Thread Bernt Hansson
Caleb Stein said the following on 2010-07-06 04:43: Here is my question again: The Wine port will only build on i386. I have amd64. I want to install Wine. Is it safe to modify Makefile to allow it to build on amd64? You won't be able to build it, but it's safe.

Is it safe to modify a port's makefile

2010-07-05 Thread Caleb Stein
I asked this question a while ago, and I received a few confusing answers. Here is my question again: The Wine port will only build on i386. I have amd64. I want to install Wine. Is it safe to modify Makefile to allow it to build on amd64? Please, just answer yes or no.

Re: Is it safe to modify a port's makefile

2010-07-05 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 07:43:24PM -0700, Caleb Stein wrote: I asked this question a while ago, and I received a few confusing answers. Here is my question again: The Wine port will only build on i386. I have amd64. I want to install Wine. Is it safe to modify Makefile to allow it

Re: Is it safe to modify a port's makefile

2010-07-05 Thread Caleb Stein
Thank you, just the kind of answer I was looking for. Now is the opportunity for a more detailed answer. After reading that page, it seemed like those instructions would either install i386 over amd64, or make your amd64 think it's i386. Now, I may be wrong, but I sure don't want my

Re: Is it safe to modify a port's makefile

2010-07-05 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 07:54:45PM -0700, Caleb Stein wrote: Thank you, just the kind of answer I was looking for. Now is the opportunity for a more detailed answer. After reading that page, it seemed like those instructions would either install i386 over amd64, or make your amd64

Re: Is it safe to modify a port's makefile

2010-07-05 Thread Caleb Stein
Ok, thanks for the information. Actually after reading more of the page, I just found the unmaintained Wine for amd64 FreeBSD. On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:12:47 -0700, Jonathan Chen j...@chen.org.nz wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 07:54:45PM -0700, Caleb Stein wrote: Thank you, just the kind of