From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 21 22:52:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts6.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B3B537B40A for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:52:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from d.tracker ([65.92.113.127]) by tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010822055154.DIOG3759.tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@d.tracker>; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:51:54 -0400 Received: (from david@localhost) by d.tracker (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f7M5oOr08028; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:50:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:50:18 -0400 From: David Banning To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" Cc: David Banning , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question abot linux emulation in general Message-ID: <20010822015017.A7858@sympatico.ca> References: <200108162311.f7GNBN301933@d.tracker> <01082022413905.00565@i8k.babbleon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01082022413905.00565@i8k.babbleon.org>; from bts@babbleon.org on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:41:39PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > See if there's a port. nope. > emulation. > > But if a program works broadly across Linux distributions and versions, it'll > almost always work under FreeBSD as well. If it only works with the xyzzy > distribution version 3.14 with the RoseBud patches, then it will almost > certianly fail under FreeBSD's Linux emulation. This may be the case, but I am not certain. > > Some software won't find FreeBSD's emluation compatible enough, but you can > install a *real* Linux distribution and point the compatibility library to > that. On my old box I had a real Linux install and FreeBSD; instead of using > the usual /usr/compat/linux/lib directory, I ditched that library and made it > a symlink to the the actual /lib in my real Linux partition. This fixed up > some things that failed under emulation. I'm not sure I fully understand this. If you create a /lib in another partition, doesn't the partition need a name?, and hence wouldn't that mean the linux libs are in /partitionname/lib ? if so i would still expect another error, as then linux is looking in an unusually named directory, like before. Thanks, Brian for your response. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message