Re: Is amd64 ready for the desktop?

["D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:52:09 -0400
"Johnny C. Lam" <jlam%pkgsrc.org@localhost> wrote:
> If the issue is with the system curses on amd64, then you can ask pkgsrc 
> to prefer using ncurses (not sure if it's any better, but they use it on 
> 64bit Linux and FreeBSD, so I assume it works) by setting the following 
> in your mk.conf file:
> 
> PREFER_PKGSRC=        curses

I did this and get the same problem.  Perhaps it is a gramofile
specific problem, some weird lookup with 32 bit assumptions.  Of
course, I would expect it to be worse than it is if that's the issue.

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