Re: Wine on NetBSD amd64

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <302035.74131.bm%smtp120.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com@localhost>,
Thomas Mueller <mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost> wrote:
>from Adrian Fernandes:
>
>> I used Wine for a long time on GNU/Linux and, after going to NetBSD, I
>just heard that Wine is not supported on the amd64 kernel.
>> I hope someone will soon make this possible :) There must be a lot of
>users waiting for Wine to be officially supported (I want to maintain it
>up to date but useless if no one can use it...)
>
>> Guys ! Make it happen !
>
>I looked in pkgsrc/emulators, and wine-devel supports i386 and amd64.  I
>believe support for amd64 is in a much less advanced stage of
>development than for i386.
>
>I built wine-devel for both i386 amd amd64 on NetBSD-current (7.99.15),
>tried on i386, and was not really satisfied.
>
>I could not navigate well, did nothing fancy, but got a crash and
>unclean reboot (meaning file systems were not cleanly dismounted).

Crashes are not good; please file a PR.

christos