Re: .wma music files (amd64 woes...)

From: Andrew P. (infofarmer_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/16/05

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    Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:04:13 +0400
To: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>

    On 10/17/05, Bill Schoolcraft <bill@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@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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    >

    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.
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