.wma music files (amd64 woes...)

[Mark Kane]

Andrew P. wrote:
> 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!
>>
>>--
>>Bill Schoolcraft
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>>San Francisco, CA 94121
>>http://billschoolcraft.com
>>              ~
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>>
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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.

I run the amd64 version of FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE on my main workstation 
and there is really only one thing that I would like to run that I 
can't. As much as I dislike flash, lots of websites I visit (including 
one of my own) are in flash so I do wish I could view them.

Actually, I guess one more thing would be OpenOffice since the current 
version of AbiWord in ports has some known bad crashing issues with the 
amd64 version of FreeBSD.

-Mark