From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Oct 25 14:39:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA18560 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:39:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA18544 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:39:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bacall.lodgenet.com (bacall.lodgenet.com [205.138.147.242]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id OAA17317 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:39:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by bacall.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA27035; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:38:23 -0500 Received: from garbo.lodgenet.com(204.124.123.250) by bacall via smap (V1.3) id sma027030; Fri Oct 25 16:38:21 1996 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.30]) by garbo.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA22608; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:38:23 -0500 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.7.6/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA03579; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:38:26 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199610252138.QAA03579@jake.lodgenet.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Michael Smith cc: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes), ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interest in a linux_crossdev port? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:22:27 +0930." <199610250252.MAA16400@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:38:25 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith writes: > >No, the idea was just to cop out^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hhave you coordinate the >_lib and _devel ports. I would be very much inclined to leave the .a >files out of the _lib port. > Yea, I've thought about that a lot in the last couple days. How do you say ``I want to cop out on this one'' without sounding lazy? ;-) ;-) I don't think it can be done. Oh, well it looks like this is just gonna be another one I've gotten myself roped into. ;-) I've got a linux_lib-2.1.tgz in ~erich on freefall, I don't know if I'll have time to commit the port upgrade before next week. I'd appreciate it if someone could give it the once-over. For now, just extract it to /compat/linux (or symlink it to there). Here's the highlights: Virtually all libraries from RedHat 4.0. ldd, ldconfig are branded `Linux' I've seen the following programs run: Xnest ELF (dynamic) xterm ELF (dynamic) bash ELF (dynamic) ldd ELF (static, branded) ldconfig ELF (static, branded) abuse a.out (ZMAGIC) quake ELF (dynamic) xtoolwait ELF (dynamic) aumix ELF (dynamic) runs, but not sound ioctls don't work pine-3.91 a.out (ZMAGIC) ls a.out (ZMAGIC) zsh a.out (ZMAGIC) acrobat reader 3.0b12 ELF (dynamic) linux JDK 1.02pl1 ELF (dynamic) only tested appletviewer, others should work a.out OMAGIC and QMAGIC don't seem to work. bin/bash for a linux shell that'll default to linux bins. It'll be next week before I get to the _devel stuff :( >OK. If you're working with RedHat as a base (and this may well be better; >I know next to nothing about the Linux developer world), then I'll leave >this in your capable hands for now. If there is anything I can do to help, >let me know. I haven't got a clue on the linux releases either. It just seemed that redhat had a more complete set of libs than slackware, (but that could have just been an optional delusion too) I'll see what I can come up with for the compiler and friends. I think gmake would be a good addition so that we've got a make that defaults to /compat/linux for stuff too. anything else? >-- >]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au.au [[ >]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ >]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ >]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ >]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com http://rrnet.com/~erich erich@rrnet.com