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contributing: Clean up i386 maintainer expectaions

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Discussed with:	fuz
Reported by:	Bohdan Artiushenko
Event:		Berlin Hackathon 202609
Closes:		https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/707
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This section is about discovering and fixing problems that stop your ports from building correctly.
FreeBSD only guarantees that the Ports Collection works on the `-STABLE` branches.
In theory, you should be able to get by with running the latest release of each stable branch (since the ABIs are not supposed to change) but if you can run the branch, that is even better.
Since the majority of FreeBSD installations run on PC-compatible machines (what is termed the `i386` architecture), we expect you to keep the port working on that architecture.
We prefer that ports also work on the `amd64` architecture running native.
We expect you to keep the port working on `amd64` and preferably `aarch64`.
It is completely fair to ask for help if you do not have one of these machines.
[NOTE]
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The usual failure modes for non-`x86` machines are that the original programmers assumed that, for instance, pointers are `int`-s, or that a relatively lax older gcc compiler was being used.
More and more, application authors are reworking their code to remove these assumptions - but if the author is not actively maintaining their code, you may need to do this yourself.
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FreeBSD only guarantees that the Ports Collection works on the `-STABLE` branches.
In theory, you should be able to get by with running the latest release of each stable branch (since the ABIs are not supposed to change) but if you can run the branch, that is even better.
These are the tasks you need to perform to ensure your port is able to be built: