Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:50:18 -0400 From: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question abot linux emulation in general Message-ID: <20010822015017.A7858@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <01082022413905.00565@i8k.babbleon.org>; from bts@babbleon.org on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:41:39PM -0400 References: <200108162311.f7GNBN301933@d.tracker> <01082022413905.00565@i8k.babbleon.org>
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> See if there's a port. nope. > emulation. > > But if a program works broadly across Linux distributions and versions, it'll > almost always work under FreeBSD as well. If it only works with the xyzzy > distribution version 3.14 with the RoseBud patches, then it will almost > certianly fail under FreeBSD's Linux emulation. This may be the case, but I am not certain. > > Some software won't find FreeBSD's emluation compatible enough, but you can > install a *real* Linux distribution and point the compatibility library to > that. On my old box I had a real Linux install and FreeBSD; instead of using > the usual /usr/compat/linux/lib directory, I ditched that library and made it > a symlink to the the actual /lib in my real Linux partition. This fixed up > some things that failed under emulation. I'm not sure I fully understand this. If you create a /lib in another partition, doesn't the partition need a name?, and hence wouldn't that mean the linux libs are in /partitionname/lib ? if so i would still expect another error, as then linux is looking in an unusually named directory, like before. Thanks, Brian for your response. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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