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Date:      Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:06:49 +0900
From:      "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org>
To:        frank@exit.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VMware 2.0.
Message-ID:  <861z45yieu.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>
In-Reply-To: In your message of "Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:31:00 -0700 (PDT)" <200004161831.LAA06667@realtime.exit.com>
References:  <200004161831.LAA06667@realtime.exit.com>

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At Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:31:00 -0700 (PDT),
Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> wrote:
> I just installed this beast and have run into a weird problem.  I try to use
> the wizard to configure things and it complains first that it can't find
> 'netscape' (I run the Linux netscape; it's in /compat/linux with symlinks
> from /usr/local) then that it can't find 'grep.'
> 
> No matter what path I give it, it keeps failing.  I don't understand this.
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
> -- 
> Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com	http://www.exit.com/

I presume you have `/usr/local/bin' and/or `/usr/bin' earlier than
`/bin' in your PATH.  Hence Linuxulator finds `/usr/bin/grep' first
instead of `/compat/linux/bin/grep' and VMware runs it only to fail
because it's FreeBSD's grep which does not search /compat/linux
automatically unlike /compat/linux/bin/grep which runs under
Linuxulator.

A workaround is to prepare a wrapper shell script which sets PATH /bin
on the top and then runs VMware.


Good luck.

P.S.
	If it works successfully, I'd like to add this tip to the
	FreeBSD.Hints as a potential FAQ.  Thank you for the report.

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Akinori -Aki- MUSHA aka / (_ /  ( (__(  <knu@idaemons.org>

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