Date: 11 Mar 1996 17:49:48 GMT From: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Compat collection. Message-ID: <4i1p3s$581@mordillo.physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <199603110548.HAA01352@grumble.grondar.za>
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Mark Murray (mark@grondar.za) wrote: : Ollivier Robert wrote: : > It seems that J Wunsch said: : > > binaries. Instead, i usually pick /usr/junklib for it, and ldconfig : > > this directory, too. Perhaps the hooks for this should go into the : > > base system, so a compatxx distribution can easily make use of it. : > : > Perhaps a /compat/freebsd as we've agreed on this for ibcs2 and linux ? : I line the idea of a separate directory, but I prefer something under /usr : so we can keep iy in that partition without compulsory, messy symlinks. how about moving all the other /compat stuff to /usr/compat too - the root filesystem is the wrong place for it and if you have it on a seperate disk you can also mount it onto /usr/compat instead of compat - so why not simply putting it to /usr/compat this way we may put the FreeBSD stuff there too and have a very consistent sheme for it (i think) /usr/compat/linux /usr/compat/ibcs2 /usr/compat/freebsd /usr/compat/netbsd and whatever - howabout that ? (include all changes in the emulation code to switch from /compat to /usr/compat) t -- thomas graichen graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de graichen@FreeBSD.org perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away antoine de saint-exupery
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