.wma music files (amd64 woes...)

Andrew P. infofarmer at gmail.com
Sun Oct 16 14:04:15 PDT 2005


On 10/17/05, Bill Schoolcraft <bill at wiliweld.com> wrote:
> At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed:
>
> > Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
> >> At Sun, 16 Oct 2005 it looks like Mark Kane composed:
> >>
> >>> Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Grrrrr, is there a list of all the ports that don't work on
> >>>> AMD64 machines?  I just attempted to install the above :(
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/
> >>>
> >>> I checked there for the xmms-wma port although I did not find it. Post the
> >>> errors that occurred and someone may be able to help.
> >>>
> >>> -Mark
> >>>
> >>
> >> Thanks Mark,
> >>
> >> Here is all that happened:
> >>
> >> #####################################
> >>
> >> [root at liam /usr/ports/audio/xmms-wma]-> make install
> >>
> >> ===>  xmms-wma-1.0.4_2 is only for i386, and you are running amd64.
> >>
> >> #####################################
> >>
> >
> > Oh okay. See what Andrew said then (that it's only for i386). I guess it
> > won't work, sorry :(
>
> Do you see all/any of this getting resolved with the release of 6.0 ?
>
> This of course is not the first port that has this limitation.
> I was really stoked to get my first amd64 with 1-gig of ram, I
> had no idea that these bumps would occur.  I run 5.4 on i386 and
> it was that experience that led me to get the 64bit box.
>
> I have it triple booted with "FreeBSD-5.4/WinXP-Pro/SuSE-9.3"
> but keep it booted into BSD to keep the faith!
>
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It's not a problem with FreeBSD, really. The ports
themselves should get to work under amd64.

2006 will probably become the year of widespread
adoption of 64-bit computing. Until it ends, you'd
better use FreeBSD/i386 on your desktops. All
server software that was popular enough was
ensured to run on FreeBSD/amd64 smoothly.

The situation is not much better with Linux, and
even worse with Windows.


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