On 2012-Jun-02 03:47:43 -0500, Lars Eighner <portsu...@larseighner.com> wrote: >I was a little bewildered to discover my machine was amd64 when >it had two Celeron processors.*
An amd64 CPU can run either FreeBSD/i386 or FreeBSD/amd64. It's up to you which variant to run. You can run i386 code on FreeBSD/amd64 but there are some tricks to get it to work if you need non-base libraries. >works on the corporate level, but that left a number of things I use >stranded as > >ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386 > >among them graphics/zgv. Normally "ONLY_FOR_ARCHS" implies that the port relies on a binary blob or includes CPU-specific code so it won't (can't) build on any other architecture. In the case of graphics/zgv, there's no reason given. It's possible that's an error on the part of the original submitter. >Because I am a life-on-the-edge I have discovered that some of them actually >will compile and run on this machine, and in particular that once I subverted >the ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= graphics/zgv got recompiled and reinstalled during the >PNG bump which we are all having fun with right now. > >So have I armed a ticking time bomb that will somehow blow up an orphanage >somewhere down the road? That depends why it was marked "ONLY_FOR_ARCHS" but if it builds and runs then it'll probably be OK. -- Peter Jeremy
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