From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Oct 19 06:51:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA07002 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 06:51:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles229.castles.com [208.214.165.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA06996; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 06:51:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA18965; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 06:50:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810191350.GAA18965@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Steve Logue cc: Mike Smith , sos@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LD_PRELOAD & Linux emulation In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 16 Oct 1998 01:49:27 PDT." <36270897.F7381BBA@mail.cdsnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 06:50:25 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > As far as the linux_lib package/port is concerned, is there room for another > person to help? Yes. > My business runs on FreeBSD, and I have a critical need to be able to run > many Linux programs now and in the future. > Therefore the proper functioning of such is worth money to me, and I would be > willing to maintain a current RedHat machine to steal libraries, and other > config files from as well as negotiating with Linux software producing > companies. I can also deal with NDA's if needed to improve linux_lib. The latter shouldn't be an issue, but the former will certainly help. > Lastly, why can't we automate this by scripted extraction straight from a > series of Red Hat packages (the horse's mouth) - let Red Hat manage for us > what is the latest linux library/config files of the day? No real reason other than lack of time on the part of the previous maintainers. Let us know when you're ready with an update. Thanks! -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message