Wine on amd64 in 32 bit jail

[Julian Elischer]

xorquewasp at googlemail.com wrote:
> On 2009-11-18 23:19:14, Julian Elischer wrote:
>> Wine is an exceptional bit of software, in many ways.
>> One way it is exceptional is that it uses the system in a number of
>> ways that nothing else does. For example it sets various special 
>> segment register settings and defines several different
>> segments on the LDT.  This is something that is different to some 
>> extent between i386 and amd64 and it is possible that
>> the code for 386 LDT syscalls under amd64 may not work correctly.
>> nothing else would test this.
>>
> 
> I agree and would also have likely not even tried if it wasn't for
> reading on FreeBSD's own wiki (amonst other places) that it should
> actually work fine. I've tried various versions and always get the
> same result:
> 
>   http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine
> 
>   "FreeBSD currently lacks support for 32bit ports on a 64bit system.
>    However, with a little bit of effort you can build and use the 32 bit
>    wine executable on an amd64 system (Diablo 2 works just fine)."
> 
> His instructions show an essentially identical setup to mine (apart
> from the fact that he's running a chroot and I'm running a jail).

jail may not alow you to do the LDT system calls.

have you tried a chroot?

> 
> Even any ideas on how to debug this would help.
> 
> xw