Is skype only usable on intel and not on AMD64?

[eculp]

Quoting Andy Fawcett <andy at athame.co.uk>:

> On Monday 31 December 2007 15:43:09 eculp wrote:
>> When trying to install skype on an acer amd turrion64x2 model
>> 5520-5679 using the latest Current snapshot for AMD64, I see the
>> following:
>>
>> /usr/ports/net/skype # make install
>> ===>  Installing for skype-1.2.0.18,1
>> ===>   skype-1.2.0.18,1 depends on file:
>> /compat/linux/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 - found
>> ===>   skype-1.2.0.18,1 depends on file:
>> /compat/linux/usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 - found
>> ===>   skype-1.2.0.18,1 depends on file:
>> /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 - not found
>> ===>    Verifying install for /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1
>> in /usr/ports/graphics/linux_dri
>> ===>  linux_dri-7.0 is only for i386, while you are running amd64.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/linux_dri.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Maybe I am missing something in my linux emulation.  I have installed
>>
>> linux_base-f7-7
>>
>> and in sysctl.conf
>>
>> compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16
>
> I hit the same, and over-rode the amd64 block manually in linux_dri. So far,
> it's working fine for me on 7.0/amd64 (even without the osrelease syscall)

Thanks Andy, gonna give it a try.  AMD64 is very very new to me.

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