From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 18:56:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 978ED37B400 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 18:56:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 472 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2002 02:56:55 -0000 Received: from dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net (66.92.171.91) by dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net with SMTP; 9 Mar 2002 02:56:55 -0000 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 21:56:55 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: pirat Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compiling linux source file with freebsd In-Reply-To: <20020309091552.A2943@radwaste.oaep.go.th> Message-ID: <20020308215228.I452-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > really apologize for asking the list. but since serveral askings arise > in freebsd interest group in my country about the subject and i am not > an expert yet so i need some hints from this list. > > my machine is 4.5-stable freebsd with 640mb ram and about 14 gb hard > disk. not the one that sending this mail. > > after reading chapter 20 of the handbook, i am still not sure that if i > fetched some of linux source files, i can compile those source file with > freebsd tools or not. i mean compile successfully. > > > i know that linux-netscape6 is in a port and i install it without any > problem. but this is another case. my case is a raw tarball of linux > source files. > > i used to compile pmake, that is bsd make, on linux machine but that > does not produce any good `pmake', or even any poor `pmake' from that > machine. > > any hints or suggestions are appreciated. > > sorry for my not so good english. i am thai > please cc to me since i do not subscribe to this list. > Basically what you need to do is cd /usr/ports/devel/linux_devtools and then do a make and then a make install. This will install the linux compiler and all other linux utils that you need in order to compile linux programs from source. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message