are the vmware3* ports still needed?

Makoto Matsushita matusita at jp.FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 23 05:38:51 UTC 2007


> Unfortunately, VMware Workstation 3.x is the most recent Workstation that 
> works (or sort of works, or used to work) on FreeBSD.

Ah, that's right.  As linimon said, it would be a fair reason to keep.  IIRC, 
the problem in question is compat3x (not VMware Tools), so simply remove 
LIB_DEPENDS line and add some warning message if libc.so.3 is not installed to 
the running box.  I'll try it tonight.

-- 
Makoto `MAR' Matsushita


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