Skype on FreeBSD / amd64 - what's the trick?

[David Reid]

Arno J. Klaassen wrote:
> Fernando Schapachnik <fernando at schapachnik.com.ar> writes:
> 
> 
>>En un mensaje anterior, Torfinn Ingolfsen escribió:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I tried to install Skype on my amd64 machine, running FreeBSD
>>>6.0-stable:
>>>root at kg-quiet# uname -a
>>>FreeBSD kg-quiet.kg4.no 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #1: Thu Dec 22
>>>06:29:24 CET 2005     root at kg-quiet.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/QUIET 
>>>amd64
>>>
>>>Looking at the makefile, I could see that the port was supposed to work
>>>on both i386 and amd64, adn thought the install would go smoothly.
>>>Boy, was I wrong.
>>>
>>>It seems that the port net/skype depends on graphics/linux_dri, but the
>>>latter (linux_dri) is i386 only.
>>>So, what's the trick to get Skype installed on amd64?
>>
>>If you have a 32-bit linux environment in place, just comment the 
>>i386 only line of the linux_dri Makefile. It worked for me and skype 
>>works fine.
> 
> 
> there seem to be serious problems on many configurations with linux_dri
> on amd64;
> I just made a symlink  libGL.so.1 -> libX11.so.6
> in /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib; this make Skype happy (which
> does not seem to need reel GL functionality, just a valid libGL.so.1
> to start-up) and prevents my linux-apps which really use GL to bomb.

I tried this and it worked! Now, if I can just figure out why my
microphone doesn't work with it I'll have a working skype setup.
Microphone doesn't seem to work under i386 either, so must be some
setting I'm not getting right I guess...

Thanks for the tip!

david