Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:26:42 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Cc: lh@aus.org, jcwells@u.washington.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG, steveo@iol.ie Subject: Re: Netscape | Mozilla Message-ID: <199901281626.IAA04657@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Jan 1999 03:12:37 PST." <199901281112.DAA69718@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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> * From: Luke <lh@aus.org>
>
> * linux_lib port. [why does it install into / anyways]
>
> You can put it anywhere and symlink to it, like sysinstall does now,
> but it has to be called "/compat" (or some other well-known place)
> because of the implementation. The string "/compat/linux" has to be
> hardcoded in the linux emulator binary. (If we move it to
> "/usr/local/compat", people who use LOCALBASE other than "/usr/local"
> will be screwed, etc.)
>
> I know, I tried to change it before until I realized that it's not
> that easy.
Install it in $PREFIX/compat and then make a symlink from /compat to
${PREFIX}/compat. This only fails if you then install the SVR4 stuff
with a different ${PREFIX}, which will screw you anyway. 8)
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