[REVIEW] Completing i386-wine

Sam Fourman Jr. sfourman at gmail.com
Mon Aug 5 06:31:55 UTC 2013


Would there also be the possibility to have i386-wine as a source-code
> port, and build from i386 installation?  That avoids cross-compiling.
>
> One could build an i386 installation either from amd64 or previous i386
> installation, then build i386-wine and other desired ports when booted into
> the i386 installation.
>
> This i386 installation would be on another partition or another disk (USB
> 3.0 stick or USB 3.0 hard-drive partition?), and from the amd64
> installation, the i386 installation could be mounted on /compat/i386.
>
> With a USB hard drive, if not directly bootable, the loader and kernel
> could be copied to another boot disk/partition, and root could be set for
> the USB hard-drive partition.  My USB 3.0 hard drive, Western Digital My
> Book Essential, is not recognized by the BIOS/UEFI or GRUB2, but is
> accessible from Linux or FreeBSD.
>
> Tom--


Can't we just have the port build wine in a i386 jail? eg it would require
the FreeBSD sources, build the jail... etc.. it seems like a LOT, but
honestly whats wrong with it... ill do the testing

>


Sam Fourman Jr.


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