Re: migrating to amd64

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20141027151010.2B2051E492%body.prd.co.uk@localhost>,
Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>First of all, thanks to those of you who helped me with pointers re.
>Firefox and OpenOffice (or rather libreoffice).   I do wonder whether
>there might not be a simple way of signposting some of this stuff,
>e.g. having a dummy entry in pkgsrc for OpenOffice.   We can't all
>keep our eye on the ball day-to-day with changes like this..
>
>Can I ask whether BSD/OS compatibility was ever present in
>amd64, and if so was its removal just due to perceived lack of
>interest or to technical difficulties?   I have a large base of
>statically-linked BSD/OS executables that I have been able to use
>unmodified for a couple of decades, but can't take over to amd64 at
>present.   I am slightly aghast at the prospect of having to rebuild
>the whole lot.   Might I be better off trying to build a virtual
>BSD/OS machine to run on Xen?   Otherwise I will have to keep old
>hardware running much beyond its plausible lifespan.

You can try running them in /current. I recently fixed some issues
that prevented NetBSD-0.9 i386 binaries running on x86_64 in /current.

christos