ports/151747: request to enable emulators/wine on amd64

[Gerald Pfeifer]

The following reply was made to PR ports/151747; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer.com>
To: David Naylor <naylor.b.david at gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org, kenorb at gmail.com
Subject: Re: ports/151747: request to enable emulators/wine on amd64
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 12:08:48 +0100 (CET)

 On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, David Naylor wrote:
 > The patches and packages are now hosted at 
 > http://mediafire.com/wine_fbsd64 .
 
 I had a closer look, and this is really a cool hack.  The problem is
 that FreeBSD lacks support for mixed 64-bit/32-bit environments, and
 this approach, among others, would not get (security) updates in one
 of the basic libraries used; it is the equivalent of static linking.
 
 If there is a way to move most of the code into the slave port and
 have fewer changes to emulators/wine itself, I'd be open to consder
 those.