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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:45:51 +0100
From:      Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
To:        Jim Stapleton <stapleton.41@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?
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Jim Stapleton wrote:

> found it; uname -a, I fixed that line, now I just need to figure out
> how to get the appropriate libs (glibc) into my compat dir... it isn't
> in any of the linux compat ports.

Good stuff.

The glibc you have might just do fine.  Just make a symlink from the one 
you want to the one you have and try!  There's an FC4 linux in the 
ports, IIRC which is as recent as any Linux I have to administer; I have 
trouble believing you'd need a newer one otherwise the app won't even 
run on most Linux machines :-)  Or maybe your app has an RPM for an 
older linux you could try.

--Alex





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