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Date:      Mon, 21 Dec 1998 19:53:58 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IBM DB2
Message-ID:  <XFMail.981221195358.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199812211738.JAA02363@dingo.cdrom.com>

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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... ;)

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven            Life is the only Pain 
asmodai(at)wxs.nl                              we endeavour...
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