From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 8 12:27:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB32F37B62F for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 12:27:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f48Ie6x49700; Tue, 8 May 2001 14:40:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200105081840.f48Ie6x49700@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Richard Tobin Cc: "Richard E. Hawkins" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a linux shell? (pgroup Fortran compiler) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 May 2001 17:40:56 BST." <200105081640.RAA03457@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 14:40:06 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Once you're running that, if you (say) try to run ls, the shell will > try /bin/ls, but because it's in compatibility mode this will try > /compat/linux/bin/ls first, so you will get the Linux ls. > This works sufficiently well that using gcc will result in the Linux > gcc being run and generating Linux binaries, but I don't know if it will > be enough for what you need. It doesn't seem to be doing it, no :( fac13# /compat/linux/bin/bash bash# echo $OSTYPE FreeBSD bash# exit fac13# /compat/linux/bin/tcsh fac13# echo $OSTYPE linux And even under tcsh, it can still tell: install: system is freebsd; but ./freebsd does not exist. Incorrect tarfile downloaded? Exiting... somewhow, it still knows it's not linux (actually, i think it looks for linux86) what *did* help (and get me further, but not to the end) was synmlinking egcs-2.91.66 to 2.7.2.3. also, I just discovered that setting $SYSTEM to linux86 gets me through the early parts of the install, but not the later ones (this is the variable *it* sets if it doesn't already exist) hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message