Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:45:09 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: linux cross-development (was: Re: /dev/null: No such file or directory) Message-ID: <20060920184438.I1031@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20060920102554.mxditjplogkscw44@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <20060918230348.I1031@ganymede.hub.org> <20060919022530.GA44301@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20060919092117.8asq42ers44w4wgg@webmail.leidinger.net> <20060920014127.GA52449@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060920102554.mxditjplogkscw44@webmail.leidinger.net>
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> (from Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:41:27 > -0400): > >> What happened to the linux_devtools port (which is supposed to take >> care of this) - was it never updated to parity with linux_base? > > No. There are several reasons. > > The current devtools port is a mess and interfered with the old linux_base > port in undesirable ways (can't remember exactly how, I would have to have a > look at it again). Bringing it into shape would be a lot of work (nobody > stepped up so far, but I didn't asked for help for this because of the next > reason). > > To cross-develop you need a full system, the linux_base port is a lean and > mean system. The current linux_base port is designed to extend the FreeBSD > system and to provide a good user experience for those ports which are > available in the ports collection (and most probably for a lot of other > applications). We rely on the fallthrough to the native stuff in various > places (e.g. we have symlinks to the corresponding FreeBSD configs where it > applies). Doing a chroot into /compat/linux may work for some use cases, but > not for all (and you need to do a chroot for cross-compiling, else you may > pickup FreeBSD native stuff and get a lot of trouble) and it is not advised > to to a chroot into it (I should add a note about this to the port...). > > The linux_dist ports are full linux systems. You can chroot into them and you > already have all you need (and you can use the gentoo package-stuff to add > additional stuff). Just curious, but why are the linux_dist ports trying to create devices in the dev directory? shouldn't one be using devfs to mount devices? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664
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