nvidia-driver 64bit version

Rainer Hurling rhurlin at gwdg.de
Fri Dec 4 15:25:28 UTC 2009


On 04.12.2009 16:18 (UTC+1), Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 03:47:24PM +0100, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I was wondering if you're working on a port for the 64bit version of
>> the new beta state nvidia driver [1].
> 
> Yup, thanks for the pointer.  I'm considering options right now.
> 
>> Since it's a completely different version it should IMO be separate from
>> x11/nvidia-driver. Maybe x11/nvidia-driver-amd64 and x11/nvidia-driver
>> could be renamed to x11/nvidia-driver-i386.
> 
> This would be the easiest route, but I'm not sure this is the best thing
> to do.  From user's perspective, one should be able to "cd
> category/port" and "make install".  The rest (including taking care of
> architecture-dependent things) should be handled by underlying
> infrastructure.  Right now I believe our bpm is capable of the task, and
> my pmake/bpm-fu is strong enough, we'll see.

I tried it with patching your Makefile and distinfo. In Makefile I only 
changed DISTVERSION and DISTNAME and commented out ONLY_FOR_ARCHS.

It installs fine and as far as I can see now all is well :-)

This is on 9.0-CURRENT (amd64) from today.

Rainer Hurling

> ./danfe



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