Date: 12 Nov 1998 00:00:59 -0600 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com, sos@freebsd.dk, n@nectar.com, nate@mt.sri.com, kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, dnelson@emsphone.com, rivers@dignus.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname Message-ID: <86n25xih5w.fsf@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: Steve Kargl's message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:12:44 -0800 (PST)" References: <199811110512.VAA01354@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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>> I have yet to hear of any solutions that don't require a hack to the
>> install procedure (eg, setting an environment variable). Unless
>> somebody comes up with an idea that would magically detect what
>> environment a given script wants, I would recommend putting a Linux
>> uname in /copmat/linux where it belongs, and the install procedure's
>> PATH can have /compat/linux ahead of /. This is easy to implement,
>> keeps the core of FreeBSD pure, and paves the way for future
>> similarities.
> What about install scripts that reside on cdroms? You can't magically
> edit a cdrom install script unless unionfs works.
I'm not talking about editing a script. I'm talking about:
PATH=/compat/linux/bin:/compat/linux/usr/bin:${PATH} ; make install
Happy hacking,
joelh
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