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>, bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc: kenorb at gmail.com
Subject: Re: ports/151747: request to enable emulators/wine on amd64
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:30:28 +0100 (CET)

 On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, David Naylor wrote:
 > I never thought of it that way but yes, you are right.  I rebuild 
 > everything so updates should propergate every wine release (~ every
 > two weeks).  Maybe it would be easier to get wine to statically link?
 
 That does not strike me as desirable, both in terms of security but
 als general updates (or stability) as well as resource usage.  The
 only real fix is for FreeBSD to start handling a 32-bit environment
 on a 64-bit platform as well as several Linux distributions have been
 doing for about a decade.
 
 > Currently the wine-fbsd64 port is i386 only.  I have considered a method 
 > of getting the port to work under amd64: by using the package produced 
 > from the i386 build.  Is there any interest in that?  Any ideas on how 
 > to do that?
 
 Sadly that exceeds my area of expertise.  I will look into your patch
 and see whether/how I can feel comfortable adjusting the general wine
 port to support your efforts.
 
 Gerald