Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:12:22 +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? Message-ID: <4496A2B6.80709@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20606190553me46f2e8xb30ed0fd28aabb69@mail.gmail.com> References: <80f4f2b20606181355x3155c33dp1e498dea663000c5@mail.gmail.com> <4495C1DF.9040506@dial.pipex.com> <80f4f2b20606181428o270e0dedl885bf38540723b15@mail.gmail.com> <449663A8.5070203@dial.pipex.com> <80f4f2b20606190255g6e742279r18fed593af119106@mail.gmail.com> <44967ABE.3030503@dial.pipex.com> <80f4f2b20606190423w2385da69o8984a50c47a8162c@mail.gmail.com> <44969C7F.1030307@dial.pipex.com> <80f4f2b20606190553me46f2e8xb30ed0fd28aabb69@mail.gmail.com>
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Alex wrote: > > The glibc you have might just do fine. Just make a symlink from the one > you want to the one you have and try! Jim Stapleton wrote: > The problem is I don't already have one, though there is a reply to my > other post that I'll be looking at in a few minutes, maybe something > will be there. I updated the locate db, and tried to locate "glibc", > but I only found documentation, and a few bin (not lib) compat files > that look like they are meant to upgrade something, but creat no > glibc. What I was considering was linking my "libc.so.6" file (no "g") > to a glibc file in compat. > glibc is the name of the "package" (gnu libc) but the actual library is called libc.so.?, at least on the Linux machine I just looked at. Are you sure the app is looking for glibc? Trying to link the compat/linux/lib/libc -> glibc is worth a try (just don't link to the FreebSD libc), but I don't think it's right. Generally, all libraries have to start with "lib" or the linker doesn't know how to find them. --Alex
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