From ca85139270e33d251f3eb2d897bca1337ec6ba6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Juergen Lock Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 19:48:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added notes about Wine-related FreeBSD kernel patches. --- README | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index f70feaf5ef3..6ccc1f482d2 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -35,6 +35,21 @@ Although Linux version 2.0.x will mostly work, certain features threads were not implemented until kernel version 2.2. If you get consistent thread-related crashes, you may want to upgrade to 2.2. +Similarly if you are on FreeBSD you may want to apply an LDT sharing +patch too (unfortunately this one still isn't in the tree, neither +-current nor -stable), and there also is a small sigtrap fix thats +needed for wine's debugger. (Actually now that its using ptrace() by +default it may no longer make a difference but it still doesn't hurt...) +And if you're running a system from the -stable branch older than +Nov 15 1999, like a 3.3-RELEASE, then you also need to apply a signal +handling change that was MFC'd at that date. More information including +patches for the -stable branch is in the ports tree: +ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/emulators/wine/files/ +(the signal handling patch, patch-3.3-sys-fsgs, and the latest README +haven't yet been committed as i write this, if they still aren't there +when you look, go here: +http://www.jelal.kn-bremen.de/freebsd/ports/emulators/wine/files/ ) + You also need to have libXpm installed on your system. The sources for it are available at ftp.x.org and all its mirror sites in the directory /contrib/libraries. If you are using RedHat, libXpm is distributed as the