cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/conf GENERIC

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 14 December 2006 15:21, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20061214192036.2BBBE45042 at ptavv.es.net>
>             "Kevin Oberman" <oberman at es.net> writes:
> : > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:07:03 -0700 (MST)
> : > From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com>
> : > Sender: owner-cvs-all at freebsd.org
> : > 
> : > In message: <346a80220612140903meecf42av7383632e8173525 at mail.gmail.com>
> : >             "Coleman Kane" <zombyfork at gmail.com> writes:
> : > : Just to let you know, there are still a significant number of amd64
> : > : single-core laptops that are still sold these days.
> : > 
> : > I have one myself.  But I'm considering running FreeBSD/i386 on it
> : > because of all the issues I've had getting a working OpenOffice on it.
> : > 
> : > Warner
> : > _______________________________________________
> : > cvs-all at freebsd.org mailing list
> : > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all
> : > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "cvs-all-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
> : > 
> : 
> : The new release of OOo is SUPPOSED to be 64-bit clean. I have no idea
> : when 2.1 will be ported to FreeBSD, but I hope it will be soon.
> : 
> : OTOH, I see little reason to run amd64 on most systems which don't have
> : large memories or some other specific reason to run it. The binaries are
> : larger and generally performance changes are minimal.
> 
> Last time I tried to build, I tripped over the jdk needing java
> needing mozilla and mozilla was marked as not buildable due to
> security issues.

On 6.x at least, just install the diablo-jdk and build WITHOUT_MOZILLA=yes and 
you should be fine.

-- 
John Baldwin