Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:24:39 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: rdmurphy@vt.edu Cc: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Matlab 5.3 Message-ID: <375700A7.91830C85@scc.nl> References: <14165.38910.206452.281058@knock.econ.vt.edu> <19990602235040.B5623@stat.Duke.EDU> <37564D49.81B57144@scc.nl> <19990603083209.W4332@stat.Duke.EDU> <37567C85.82B52EB3@scc.nl> <14166.61133.958438.358417@knock.econ.vt.edu>
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"Russell D. Murphy Jr." wrote: > running (steps listed below). The problem I still have (I think) is > some residual inconsistency in accessing directories and files from > within the linux programs and script files. For instance, when I run > Matlab and execute the "helpdesk" command, Matlab tries to start up a > web browser which will read an html file created in /tmp. But, it > seems unable to create the file: I believe there are some inconsistencies in the way the overlaying is performed. Depending on the syscall, the result is sometimes below /compat/linux and sometimes not. This can be solved by creating the patch in advance (as you have done). Another problem is with the Linux/FreeBSD mix in conjunction with overlaying. If a Linux application passes a path to a FreeBSD application, for example /tmp/foobar then a Linux application looks for /compat/linux/tmp/foobar by default (mind the abstraction, will ya :-). With the given path and the actual location (under /compat/linux) FreeBSD binaries will complain. The first problem is something I like to address if I have the time. The second problem can be solved most of the time by using Linux binaries instead of FreeBSD binaries (in your case you can instaal a Linux webbrowser) or, alternatively, make sure the path specification matches the actual location. > Perhaps related: after installation, I wanted to run lmstat to check > communications with the license manager. This script calls arch.sh > which tests for: > > if [ -f /bin/uname ]; then > > This should be satisfied: > > knock# ls -l /compat/linux/bin/uname > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5368 Aug 5 1998 /compat/linux/bin/uname > > and: > > knock# /compat/linux/bin/sh > bash# ls -l /bin/uname > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5368 Aug 5 1998 /bin/uname > bash# /bin/uname > FreeBSD You may want to make sure that the script is interpreted by /compat/linux/bin/bash and not by /bin/sh. And of course you may want to make sure [ exists for Linux! My guess is that this is a typical Linux/FreeBSD mix, because uname is not located in /bin for FreeBSD, but in /usr/bin! > (I didn't use Marcel's patch because I'm running -STABLE, not -CURRENT). The patch is trivial, so that's not a real problem. But I'll take the hint, I'll make a -stable version as well :-) > 2. Install tar-1.12-4.i386.rpm > - insisted on --nodeps to install without rmt > - if /compat/linux/tmp and /compat/linux/var/tmp are links > rather than directories, then the post-installation scripts > here and below fail, claiming "too many levels of symbolic > links" That can happen is (for example) /compat/linux/tmp is a link to /tmp and/or /compat/linux/var/tmp is a link to /var/tmp. For Linux binaries /var/tmp is the same a /compat/linux/var/tmp!!! I guess there is indefinite recursion going on... > 3. Install sh-utils-1.16-14.i386.rpm > - also cracklib-2.7-2.i386.rpm > - also cracklib-dicts-2.7-2.i386.rpm > - also pwdb-0.55-1.i386.rpm > - also sed-3.02-1.i386.rpm > - also gawk-3.0.3-3.i386.rpm > - also pamconfig-0.51-5.noarch.rpm > - also pam-0.64-3.i386.rpm > (some of these may not be neccesary, but I simply followed the rpm > claims about dependencies) sh-utils can and needs to be installeds with --no-deps too. You don't want to drown in pam stuff and such... [snip] For the remaining problems, remind the two key problems I mentioned above. My experience is that it always seems to boil down to one of them. Good luck, Maybe you like to write a HOWTO is you get it to work? -- 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 freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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