Skype-1.4 on 6.2 (and 7.0-BETA1)

[Andriy Gapon]

on 31/10/2007 19:28 Stefan Lambrev said the following:
> Yes amd64 can cause problems, because you can't use WITH_NVIDIA_GL, 
> which force you to use linux_dri which is also marked i386 only.
> I'm not sure about new skype and freebsd on amd64.
> What you can try is to change the Makefile of linux_dri (and skype) and 
> to add amd64 to allowed archs.

That's exactly what I did for older skype port and everything worked
very well for me. IMHO, as long as our linux emulation always emulates
32-bit Linux all ports that have only i386 in the allowed archs should
also add amd64. Unless, probably, this is something that installs a
kernel module.

> Also if you do not run something mission critical you can go for f7 and 
> experiment for yourself.
> Last time when I checked linux-browsers and skype worked without 
> problems on amd64, fc6, compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16
> So what stops you to experiment with latest things? :)

Before I start, is it known that fc6 or f7 can work on 6.2 (not even
RELENG_6) ? If there are any success stories, then I'll give it a try
And if RELENG_6 is better in this respect than 6.2, then I'll wait for 6.3.

> If you didn't get skype working on amd64 you can report this to the 
> maintainer, and ask him to make a legacy port skype12 or something like 
> this.

This is my current situation, 1.4 doesn't work for me so far.

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Andriy Gapon