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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:56:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/www/linux-mozilla Makefile
Message-ID:  <20020911135340.P3371-100000@blues.jpj.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020911174253.GB45220@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de>

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Alexander Langer wrote:

> Thus spake David O'Brien (obrien@FreeBSD.org):
>
> > > > Should this port just set "USE_LINUX=true"?
> > That isn't what USE_LINUX says.  USE_LINUX is simply:
> > RUN_DEPENDS+= ${LINUXBASE}/etc/redhat-release:${PORTSDIR}/emulators/linux_base
>
> Btw, that dependency is not enough.

That's right.

> Both, a current linux-opera and linux-mozilla failed to use my old
> linux_base-6.x installation on a fairly unused machine, that still had
> the redhat-release file,  due to glibc version mismatches.

As I said, the linux-gtk port as it exists now is incompatible with the
glibc in linux_base-6.  If your linux_base is older than 6.1_2, it has
several security bugs.
-- 
Trevor Johnson


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