From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Feb 14 20:12:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6B7A37B401 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:12:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D48127E; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:12:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from cup.hp.com (p1000180.nsr.hp.com [15.109.0.180]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id UAA02207; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:12:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3A8B5736.6780E776@cup.hp.com> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:12:38 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Harding Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of Linux upgrade References: <3A868C21.BAF18F98@outpost.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Craig Harding wrote: > > I was wondering if any work was being done on upgrading the Linux > emulation from its current RedHat 6.1 base to something more recent? No, not yet. > Alternatively, could anyone give me some pointers on what would be > involved in upgrading some of the libraries in an existing 6.1 > installation to current versions? Specifically, > (/compat/linux)/lib/libpthread-0.8.so? The makefile defines a variable UPDATES. This can contain all libraries installed by the port and present in the `updates/6.1/$ARCH` directory on any mirror. > I would like to try using a newer libpthread to see if this fixes the > problem, I know RH7 appears to use 0.9 but my various naive attempts at > upgrading the Linuxilator libraries have been spectacularly > unsuccessful. New libraries normally trigger changes in the kernel module as well. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message