Andrew P. wrote:
On 10/17/05, Bill Schoolcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed:
Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed:
Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
Grrrrr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on
AMD64 machines? I just attempted to install the above :(
http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/
I checked there for the xmms-wma port although I did not find it. Post the
errors that occurred and someone may be able to help.
-Mark
Thanks Mark,
Here is all that happened:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma]-> make install
===> xmms-wma-1.0.4_2 is only for i386, and you are running amd64.
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Oh okay. See what Andrew said then (that it's only for i386). I guess it
won't work, sorry :(
Do you see all/any of this getting resolved with the release of 6.0 ?
This of course is not the first port that has this limitation.
I was really stoked to get my first amd64 with 1-gig of ram, I
had no idea that these bumps would occur. I run 5.4 on i386 and
it was that experience that led me to get the 64bit box.
I have it triple booted with "FreeBSD-5.4/WinXP-Pro/SuSE-9.3"
but keep it booted into BSD to keep the faith!
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It's not a problem with FreeBSD, really. The ports
themselves should get to work under amd64.
2006 will probably become the year of widespread
adoption of 64-bit computing. Until it ends, you'd
better use FreeBSD/i386 on your desktops. All
server software that was popular enough was
ensured to run on FreeBSD/amd64 smoothly.
The situation is not much better with Linux, and
even worse with Windows.
I run the amd64 version of FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE on my main workstation
and there is really only one thing that I would like to run that I
can't. As much as I dislike flash, lots of websites I visit (including
one of my own) are in flash so I do wish I could view them.
Actually, I guess one more thing would be OpenOffice since the current
version of AbiWord in ports has some known bad crashing issues with the
amd64 version of FreeBSD.
-Mark
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