From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 11 16:41:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA03562 for current-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 16:41:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA03556 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 16:40:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA29463; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 17:34:45 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199702120034.RAA29463@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: linux ELF codine no go on 2.2 Gamma To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 17:34:45 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, swallace@ece.uci.edu, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199702120018.KAA08924@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 12, 97 10:48:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > A better soloution is to create a "package" for commercial Linux > > product distributions, since you have to do a damn hand-install anyway > > to get them installed, and then have them do the brand. You solve > > the binary recognition and the hand-install problems at the same time, > > and you do it without hacks. > > This is, of course, a good short-term solution. It doesn't address > everything of course (like, who does the work?) How about "anyone bothered by ELF recognition problems who wants to trample code to maketheir binaries run"? 8-) 8-). Making a port's not like "belling the cat"; anyone who has a binary that acts like this is up for the job; besides, it will let the commercial vendors include the port files on their media (if it's done wright) and they can put "Linux/FreeBSD" (or even "FreeBSD/Linux"?) on the box instead of just "Linux"). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.