olvwm on amd64

[Luciano Rottava da Silva]

Thanks Alnis but, isn't xview only available for i386?

I am stuck because of it. Or am I doing something wrong?

root at desktop:/usr/ports/x11-wm/olvwm # make install clean
===>   olvwm-4.2_1 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/pkg - found
===> Fetching all distfiles required by olvwm-4.2_1 for building
===>  Extracting for olvwm-4.2_1
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for olvwm4.tar.Z.
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for olvwm4.Patch01.Z.
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for olvwm4.Patch02.Z.
===>  Patching for olvwm-4.2_1
===>  Applying distribution patches for olvwm-4.2_1
===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for olvwm-4.2_1
===>   olvwm-4.2_1 depends on executable: imake - found
===>   olvwm-4.2_1 depends on executable: tradcpp - found
===>   olvwm-4.2_1 depends on file: /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/xpm.pc -
found
===>   olvwm-4.2_1 depends on shared library: libxview.so - not found
===>    Verifying for libxview.so in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/xview
===>  xview-3.2.1.4.19c_1 is only for i386, while you are running amd64.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/xview
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/x11-wm/olvwm


On 20 November 2014 19:29, Alnis Morics <alnis.morics at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 11/20/2014 23:01, Luciano Rottava da Silva wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to setup up a new FreeBSD desktop at home based on the new
>> 10.1
>> release.
>>
>> As usual, my wm of choice is olvwm. Well, didn't know ports/packages are
>> not available for amd64, only for i386.
>>
>> Searching on the Internet I've read in many places the problem is with
>> xview and there's no hope for 64-bit platform.
>>
>> But then I've found the following website:
>>
>> http://physionet.caregroup.harvard.edu/physiotools/xview/
>>
>> So, question is, is it possible to run a i386 Linux package in my amd64
>> Free machine? Would it be possible run the i386 FreeBSD packages xview and
>> olvwm?
>>
>> How can I run my beloved olvwm? There must be a way!
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Luciano.
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> Of course ports are available for amd64. Just run
>
> portsnap fetch extract
>
> to download and extract the ports tree.
>
> And olvwm is in ports. To install it, run:
>
> cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/olvwm
> make install clean
>
> The manual chapter on how to work with ports:
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/
> handbook/ports-using.html
>
> -Alnis
>
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