From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Dec 21 10:47:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03564 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:47:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA03545 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:47:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.239]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA58D8; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 19:47:35 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199812211738.JAA02363@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 19:53:58 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: IBM DB2 Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 21-Dec-98 Mike Smith wrote: > Ok. I wasted Sunday on this sucker (and to think I could have cleaned > the bathroom instead...). Ehm, no comment ;) > Their target with this build is clearly RedHat 5.2. We're not there > yet in terms of environment support. To play with it you will need: I hate all that platform specific stuff by now... Can't people at least provide a generic way and then mayhaps platform specific stuff? (OK, so I am rambling...) > - a working /compat/linux/bin/rpm > - libraries from RedHat 5.2, installed using rpm > - /compat/linux/bin/sh, installed using rpm > - /compat/linux/bin/ksh, installed using rpm Did the RPM in 5.2 change from what rpm.org is offering? Libraries: glib++ to name one? > and that's as far as I've gotten. We may also have problems with its > shared-memory requirements. > > The documentation for this beast is pretty good; the installation > worksheets and general degree of assurance and handholding is fairly > confidence-inspiring, as is the fact that no matter how irritating, > they've actually taken the packaging requirements of the platform > seriously. Heh, seems like Big Blue is learning, finally, after years... ;) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Life is the only Pain asmodai(at)wxs.nl we endeavour... Network/Security Specialist BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message