Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 19:01:38 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, rivers@dignus.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname Message-ID: <199811100301.TAA08917@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9811101306280.9655-100000@spectrum.physics.adelaide.edu.au>
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Shell scripts in ~/bin are your friend. So, for example, when I downloaded
the linux version of the realaudio player 5 and wanted to run it on my
FreeBSD box, I wound up writing a little shell script to setup the
proper environment, LD_LIBARRY_PATH or something like that, and then
run the real linux binary.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
<dillon@backplane.com> (Please include original email in any response)
:On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Nate Williams wrote:
:
:> Ahh, but what happens when I have to run the same applications in the
:> same shell? Do I have to modify my environment everytime I run a
:> different application? Do I have to remember which 'emulated OS' the
:> application runs?
:
:That's where the proposed "commercial ports" category would come in. Someone
:could provide wrappers for installation, executing, etc, which handle all the
:messy work of setting environment variables and so forth to get the thing to
:run, for things which require a 'tweaked' emulation environment.
:
:Kris
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