xmame-0.76.1 needs ~amd64 with a small change to the ebuild. in the section near the top of the ebuild that sets CPU a stanza needs to be added that is identical to all the others but sets CPU=amd64. As the person who wrote the patch for xmame to support amd64, I can assure you this works :) PS: As a side note, the same thing can be done for ia64, though I don't have an ia64 machine to test this on. PPS: we may want to consider adding support for the new LOW_MEM option in the makefile for people with less than 256MB RAM, since xmame takes a TON of memory to compile without it, but it does make the compile take longer with it, so maybe via a local USE flag? I recommend "lowspec". I would be surprised if there weren't other ebuilds that would benefit from this flag since I know of at least one other program that has options for building with limited resources (gcc - though in this case it's for building with limited disk space, not RAM, which is why I recommend lowspec and not lowmem).
Fixed in CVS. Give it a try and see how it goes for you. I'm hoping that the joystick support can work with the 64 bit archs. If not, it'll need to be a separate case in the case statement.
Moving to TESTing.
Ok, enough testing.
stupid bugzilla
this is fixed
Created attachment 23698 [details, diff] ebuild diff for amd64 xmame-0.77.1.ebuild currently configures amd64 to use nasm and therefore fails to compile. i suppose the reporter requested adding a cpu section similar to the other architectures setting MY_CPU=amd64 instead of the current configuration which assumes amd64=i386=ia64. i'll attach a diff to fix the amd64 problem. it's possible that ia64 requires a similar fix since the makefile also contains # MY_CPU=ia64, but i don't have access to an ia64 machine to verify this. by the way, the makefile contains the following statement about joysticks: # If supported, you can use the standard joystick driver. Note that this # can work on non-x86 platforms. I just haven't come up with a good # replacement name for it. have not been able to test that, i don't have a joystick.
