Re: AMD64

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Drew Kirkpatrick wrote:

> I run windowmaker on my two amd64 systems very well, although I run
> 0.80.2 (with the r4 gentoo patches, I'm ona gentoo box). I haven't

I see, I compiled it from fresh out of ports, so I think it will be a
while until it catches up with it too. Here the version:

-----------------------------Snip-------------------------------------
# New ports collection makefile for:    WindowMaker
# Date created:         August 13, 1997
# Whom:                 [email protected]
#
# $FreeBSD: ports/x11-wm/windowmaker/Makefile,v 1.124 2004/10/26
# 08:49:49 dougb 
Exp $
#

PORTNAME=       windowmaker
PORTVERSION=    0.91.0
-----------------------------Snip-------------------------------------

some of the ports haven't been updated and so it could take a while.

> had any luck with 0.91 on amd64 boxes (crashes, etc), but I think

No worries with the stability, it is that applications crash when
called up.

> some of that is my old configs. I'm running windowmaker 0.91 very

That could be a good reason too as I used all my old configs from the
32bit version. I will try it witout the configs.

> well on my gentoo iBook, so ppc isn't a problem, although this is a
> 32 bit ppc.  If I were you, I'd try using 0.80.2 on the amd64's and

yes, with 32bit no problems.

> see if that doesn't clear things up for ya. It did for me.
> 
I think I wait until the maintainer updates it and then use it again
once I hear it is ready for AMD64 ports. In the meantime Ihave
fluxbox and it works nice too.

Thanks for the help.

Ernst

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