From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 10 19:26:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA26373 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 19:26:22 -0800 Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [198.137.146.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA26365 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 19:26:14 -0800 Received: from LOCALHOST (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id UAA18183; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 20:26:03 -0700 Message-Id: <199511110326.UAA18183@rover.village.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: Compiling Linux Binaries under FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 10 Nov 1995 06:23:21 PST Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 20:26:02 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk : I'm sure if someone really worked hard enough they could probably come : up with a reasonably convincing argument for how a full linux : cross-compilation environment would make their lives easier, but it's : take a lot more than that to convince me that this makes sense for the : general populace. Being able to run things like Linux Wingz, : WordPerfect or the Caldera desktop - now THAT makes sense. It has made my life easier in the past, but I went the route of building a full tool chain and installing it myself. It isn't that horribly hard to do, so I think that Jordan may be right. However, if it does just work with some care (like installing libc, et al in the right places), then I don't think anything should be done to break it :-) Warner