i386 on an amd64

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:49:48 -0400, Hermit <klowther at cisnet.com> wrote:

> I've googled myself out.  How do I 
> install ports that croak about being 
> compiled for i386 on an amd64?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ken

This really belongs on either the questions or amd64 lists, but
anyway...

If you compile the ports from source, you can try commenting out or
deleting the "ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=" line in the port's Makefile.  Sometimes
the port will then compile and install successfully.  Some ports will
still have problems, though.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"