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

[Arno J. Klaassen]

"David O'Brien" <obrien at freebsd.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:14:10PM +0100, Arno J. Klaassen wrote:
> > Fernando Schapachnik <fernando at schapachnik.com.ar> writes:
> > > En un mensaje anterior, Torfinn Ingolfsen escribió:
> > > > I tried to install Skype on my amd64 machine, running FreeBSD
> > > > 6.0-stable:
> ...
> > > > 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.
> > My $0.02
> 
> Patch to /usr/ports anyone? :-)

Installing a fake libGL.so.1 in /usr/X11R6/share/skype and use
LD_LIBRARY_PATH AND ENOENT /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1
will probably infer less with futur development on linux_dri, no?

Arno

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