Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 08:16:17 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux-base-5.2 - Imported sources Message-ID: <378593B1.8B4D4746@scc.nl> References: <6514.931435144@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <3784953E.20F2005E@scc.nl> <19990708114649.A67400@dragon.nuxi.com> <3784FA51.639E1920@scc.nl> <19990708223740.A3633@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton wrote: > Is there ever likely to be a need to have more than two copies of the libs > installed, and in different places? I'd hope not, but it has always been in the back of my mind that such may be the case. > We might well want to have a > > /compat/redhat-linux-60 > /compat/debian-linux-52 > /compat/suse-linux-4 If most of the dynamic linked Linux binaries in those directories use the same "interpreter", you loose your way to distinguish the binaries. I think it's not possible (even if it can be sdone technically :-) > or whatever, all installed at once. Different apps would be configured > (perhaps as an extension of brandelf?) to look in different place as > necessary. The case in which brandelf is always required before a Linux binary can be used is not a case we want. Too many install/setup procedures get broken by that. > It'll be a fairly pathological case, but it'd be nice if the capability > wasn't designed out of the system from the beginning. Well, that was originally the case when I included the version number in the ports directory. I got the impression that that was not at all welcome :-) I now have decided to drop the version numbering. Using RH52 as the version is even worse then it now is. > The variant-symlink supporters may now begin their incense burning and > ritual chanting. :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4200655 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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