Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 19:52:25 +0200 From: Felix Palmen <zirias@freebsd.org> To: ports@freebsd.org, emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building a Linuxulator userland from source Message-ID: <3fn43ksmv2lgahhwnfl2e3tgrj3ydwtur54vhc4iggwx5a67tz@pxtbocitq2xy> In-Reply-To: <d3xyk4axjo2j5xctsoolmfdbq6zk6bs3r6dbhs4dnmfjgvhj6t@zy3fuy2yyt4e> References: <xcztahm3vu3bjghjqqxuoy2xabyjmyfq22jw6mkaaaqo7wa36s@fdq7dlvpuhlk> <i3kr2kukjwgw2xvjlzgshwe72bjpnln4lvl7prhk77nelzidm6@2g56zi3ku7ec> <d3xyk4axjo2j5xctsoolmfdbq6zk6bs3r6dbhs4dnmfjgvhj6t@zy3fuy2yyt4e>
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* Felix Palmen <zirias@freebsd.org> [20230901 16:55]:
> Posting yet another status update [...]
And the next one ;)
First, I kind of reached a "milestone", I got multimedia/makemkv to
build with the new userland (using the ffmpeg shared libs instead of
linking it statically as is necessary with -c7), and it *seems* to work
just fine \o/. Unfortunately, it still segfaults in "guiserver" mode, so
obviously this wasn't caused by the ancient userland -> still no GUI
here for FreeBSD :(
But then, the bad news, it seems I'm hitting a brick wall trying to port
gtk2 (a prerequisite for Citrix Workspace, another app I want to *try*
to get to work). It fails building its demos, telling it can't determine
the file type of some .png file. I assume there is some issue around
shared-mime-info, I'm not sure yet...
But now, I have the idea to once again completely restructure my new
userland, and I'm posting it here hoping for comments from people with
experience regarding Linuxulator:
* So far, my linuxsrc_base metaport just pulls in what I thought to be a
very minimal working GNU/Linux userland: glibc, libstdc++, libgcc,
bash, sed, grep, awk (all the GNU flavors), openssl, coreutils, man-db
and a few other tools. I *think* I should also add anything to "base"
that's present in FreeBSD base.
* For my 'dist' ports (additional tools and libs going to /compat/linux
that are not part of base), I currently install them the same way as
the 'base' ports: PREFIX /compat/linux, but a prefix of /usr passed to
the respective build system. I now think I should change this to use a
prefix of /usr/local instead, so the libs are (hopefully) configured
the same way as their FreeBSD equivalents and I could drop anything
else (man-pages, other docs, shared data, etc) and even in most cases
binaries from the packages, maybe instead adding a runtime dependency
to the respective FreeBSD-native port. My idea is that this should
enable the best possible integration into the FreeBSD system, using
anything but the libs from ${LOCALBASE}.
So, any comments on these ideas?
Cheers, Felix
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