amd ports

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Wed Sep 20 09:51:24 PDT 2006


On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:19 AM, eoghan wrote:
> Just a general question about the ports for freebsd. I am now  
> running 6.1 on amd64. Got most of what I need, but noticed that  
> some ports are only i386 - like the flock browser and skype.  
> Obviously I can live without these but was just wondering if there  
> is a place I could check to see whether these would be available  
> for amd in the future?

Certainly.  The best place would be with the port maintainer, if any  
is listed, and with the project-specific mailing list, webforum,  
original developer(s), or whatever.  The latter may be more helpful,  
as not all port maintainers may have access to AMD64/EM64T hardware.

-- 
-Chuck



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