Wine 20041201 on FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 05:17:18AM +0000, jason henson wrote:
> On 12/26/04 23:13:19, Matthew Bluestone wrote:
> >I am running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, Xorg 6.8.1 (portupgraded today),  
> >and
> >KDE 3.3.3 (portupgraded today).  My ports tree was updated yesterday.
> >
> >I am trying to run Wine, and I have the 20041201 port.  The release
> >notes say that it now runs under FreeBSD 5.3.  While Wine's doc
> >suggests that a kernel patch may be necessary, the discussion on this
> >at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=73092 suggests that  
> >that
> >is not the case and that Wine itself has been patched.
> >
> >Incidentally, I am only bothering with all this in order to run the
> >Party Poker client, which is listed on winehq as running
> >(http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=1567;whq_appdb=acc45b9fbc40a720bb99098126f77753)
> >
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=73092 clearly states there  
> were 2 patches to get wine running.  One to wine and one to bsd.   

It also clearly states (in the followup) that the kernel patch is no
longer needed.

To the OP: You should raise questions about third party ports with the
port maintainer, or the software authors.

Kris
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