PATCH: README and FreeBSD

Gerald Pfeifer gerald at pfeifer.com
Sat Oct 30 22:56:21 CDT 2004


An obvious one. ;-)

Gerald

ChangeLog:
Update FreeBSD info.
Index: README
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/wine/wine/README,v
retrieving revision 1.46
diff -u -3 -p -r1.46 README
--- README	6 May 2004 23:51:44 -0000	1.46
+++ README	31 Oct 2004 03:48:38 -0000
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ found at http://www.winehq.org.
  To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:

    Linux version 2.0.36 or above
-  FreeBSD 4.x or FreeBSD 5-CURRENT or later
+  FreeBSD 5.3 or later
    Solaris x86 2.5 or later
    NetBSD-current

@@ -44,9 +44,13 @@ Linux info:
    it's best to have a current kernel such as 2.4.x.

  FreeBSD info:
-  Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG
-  options turned on in your kernel.  More information is in the ports
-  tree: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/emulators/wine/
+  Wine should build on FreeBSD 4.x and FreeBSD 5.x before 5.3, but will
+  generally not work on these systems due to issues with threading and
+  mmap().  In fact, even on FreeBSD 5.3 you will need the kernel patch
+  posted at <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=73092>.
+ 
+  More information can be found in the FreeBSD ports tree at
+  <ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/emulators/wine/>.

  Solaris info:
    You will most likely need to build Wine with the GNU toolchain



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