Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 14:40:06 -0400 From: dochawk@psu.edu To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Cc: "Richard E. Hawkins" <dochawk@psu.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a linux shell? (pgroup Fortran compiler) Message-ID: <200105081840.f48Ie6x49700@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 May 2001 17:40:56 BST." <200105081640.RAA03457@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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> Once you're running that, if you (say) try to run ls, the shell will
> try /bin/ls, but because it's in compatibility mode this will try
> /compat/linux/bin/ls first, so you will get the Linux ls.
> This works sufficiently well that using gcc will result in the Linux
> gcc being run and generating Linux binaries, but I don't know if it will
> be enough for what you need.
It doesn't seem to be doing it, no :(
fac13# /compat/linux/bin/bash
bash# echo $OSTYPE
FreeBSD
bash# exit
fac13# /compat/linux/bin/tcsh
fac13# echo $OSTYPE
linux
And even under tcsh, it can still tell:
install: system is freebsd; but ./freebsd does not exist.
Incorrect tarfile downloaded?
Exiting...
somewhow, it still knows it's not linux (actually, i think it looks for
linux86)
what *did* help (and get me further, but not to the end) was
synmlinking egcs-2.91.66 to 2.7.2.3.
also, I just discovered that setting $SYSTEM to linux86 gets me through
the early parts of the install, but not the later ones (this is the
variable *it* sets if it doesn't already exist)
hawk
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