Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 15:18:47 +0100 From: Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Linux/i386 compat on Freebsd/amd64 / ONLY_FOR_ARCHS Message-ID: <200411071518.59679.benlutz@datacomm.ch>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello, This is a repost of a mail I sent to ports@ 3 weeks ago. I apologize if that bothers anyone, but it didn't generate any replies, and the issue remains unsolved. I've successfully managed to get Linux/i386 compatibility working on FreeBSD 5.3/amd64. Took some fiddling, but was actually less complicated that I assumed. I've written a short HOWTO, it's available here: http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?t=297 Now, one thing I noticed is that pretty much all linux ports are marked with ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386, when in fact they work just fine on FreeBSD/amd64 (with the linux/i386 compatibility environment, ie linux_base-8 installed). This is somewhat annoying,as it requires manually setting MACHINE_ARCH=i386 and sometimes ARCH=i386 with every make. Now... I assume that eventually FreeBSD will also get Linux/*64 support sooner or later, and that there'll be linux ports that use only one of the two linux compat environments. So what I'm trying to say is that I'm not sure that setting ONLY_FOR_ARCHS for binary linux ports makes a lot of sense... could it not be assumed that if the linux/i386 compatibility environment is installed on a machine, linux/i386 apps will work even if this is not an i386 machine? Same thing when FreeBSD gets linux/*64 support. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with the internals of the ports system to come up with an ingeniously simple but powerful solution (nor am I ingenious enough ;) ), but maybe I can start a discussion that leads to something good? Benjamin [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBji7TgShs4qbRdeQRAq0OAJ0QtImOVXbdzAv3Q5OFsDqpH5yC9wCfTHS2 vYMMUqgsx9hKy1PdsGX9uAQ= =vAqM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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