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Date:      Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:50:57 -0300 (ADT)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /dev/null: No such file or directory
Message-ID:  <20060919224942.J1031@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060920014127.GA52449@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20060918230348.I1031@ganymede.hub.org> <20060919022530.GA44301@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20060919092117.8asq42ers44w4wgg@webmail.leidinger.net> <20060920014127.GA52449@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:21:17AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> Quoting Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> (from Mon, 18 Sep
>> 2006 21:25:30 -0500):
>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:08:42PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have linux_base-fc-4_8 installed, clean install, and the two sysctl
>>>> referred to in /usr/ports/UPDATING haven't been changed from the default:
>>>>
>>>> # sysctl -a | grep compat.linux.osname
>>>> compat.linux.osname: Linux
>>>> # sysctl -a | grep compat.linux.osrelease
>>>> compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2
>>>>
>>>> But, when I try to run configure from a chroot environment, I get:
>>>>
>>>> ../gcc-4.0.3/configure: line 533: /dev/null: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> I've searched through /usr/ports/UPDATING, but am not finding anything
>>>> except for the section on "remove /compat/linux completely", which I've
>>>> done ...
>>>>
>>>> So, either the port isn't creating something, or I'm missing something in
>>>> the UPDATING doc :(
>>>
>>> You must have devfs containing at least null and zero mounted in your
>>> chroot.
>>
>> Right. Additionally I suggest to use a linux_dist-gento-* port if you
>> want to do cross-development. The default linux_base port only
>> contains stuff to run the programs in the ports collection (and maybe
>> a little bit more). To compile the stuff to test the linuxolator in
>> -current I use linux_dist-gento-stage3. You should mount devfs,
>> linprovfs and maybe linsysfs in the chroot.
>
> What happened to the linux_devtools port (which is supposed to take
> care of this) - was it never updated to parity with linux_base?

Apparently not ... ?

> ls -ld */*devtools*
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov  6  2005 devel/linux_devtools-6
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov  6  2005 devel/linux_devtools-7

And all they contain in them is README.html files ...

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