Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 02:30:42 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'which' and installing Linux software on -STABLE Message-ID: <200307250230.42360.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <E19fiVj-000E9u-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk> References: <E19fiVj-000E9u-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 01:30, Pete French wrote: > Has anyone else had frustrating problems with the use of 'which' in > Linux mode ? I have some SUN software which I am trying to install. > I am running Linux bash to run the install script - running 'uname' > returns 'Linux' > > But the SUn code does 'which uname' to get the path to 'uname' before > running it. the ;which' command is a bash builtin, and this returns > the '/usr/bin/uname' command rather than '/bin/uname'. Thus it > runs /usr/bin;uname, egts the answer 'FreeBSD' and refuses to install. > > Any ideas ? I did a search on this but didnt come up with any answers. I don't know where bash gets its answer from if uname is builtin, but if you have linux compatibility installed you should have a Linux version of the uname utility in /usr/compat/linux/bin/ which returns Linux. Maybe you can trick the installation by temporarily switching the uname utilities or perhaps even by adding /usr/compat/linux/bin/ at the front of your PATH. Then again perhaps it won't work! Or if its not called with any options why not temporarily set up a uname script which simpley echos Linux. Malcolm
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