emulators/linux-wine: Help in porting to FreeBSD

[Scot Hetzel]

On 3/9/07, Tijl Coosemans <tijl at ulyssis.org> wrote:
> > The question is what kind of wine we, poor windows
> > addicts, can have on FreeBSD/amd64...
>
> This may be a dumb suggestion, but can't you install i386 packages
> under amd64?
>

You can't install the i386 packages with pkg_add on FreeBSD/amd64, as
you risk installing 32bit libraries on top of the 64bit libraries.

The only way to install an i386 package on FreeBSD/amd64 is to use a
staging area, and only install the 32bit libraries into PREFIX/lib32.

You then install the amd64 package, to have access to the 64bit programs.

Then to install the i386 wine package, extract it to the staging area
and check if any libraries are going to conflict with the 64bit
versions, if not use pkg_add, otherwise you'll have to manually
install the files.

The only problem, is you no longer can use pkg_delete to remove the
32bit libraries as they wouldn't have been registered in /var/db/pkg.

Scot


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