This could be a wild goose chase but ...

[Glen Barber]

Hi

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Graeme Dargie <arab at tangerine-army.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I have been trying for a day or two to get
> /usr/ports/multimedia/handbrake to install on 8.0-Release AMD64, the
> port just stops bleating about wanting i386, I did some googling and
> found a supposed patch to cure this so it would install but that does
> not seem to make any difference as the patch does not apply correctly.
> Has anyone managed to get this going on AMD64 or am I just chasing the
> proverbial wild goose ?

There is an entry in the FreeBSD Wiki regarding building
emulators/wine on amd64 and running in an i386 chroot environment.

Your mileage may vary, of course.

http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine#head-6963d527c173e57b1567e881305b544d33435b6d

-- 
Glen Barber