From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 10 04:40:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA18131 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 04:40:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mushi.colo.neosoft.com (mushi.colo.neosoft.com [206.109.6.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA18122 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 04:40:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@taronga.com) Received: (qmail 4366 invoked from network); 10 Nov 1998 12:40:27 -0000 Received: from bonkers.neosoft.com (HELO bonkers.taronga.com) (root@206.109.2.48) by mushi.colo.neosoft.com with SMTP; 10 Nov 1998 12:40:27 -0000 Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id GAA08709; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 06:40:25 -0600 Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 06:40:25 -0600 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Message-Id: <199811101240.GAA08709@bonkers.taronga.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Newsgroups: taronga.freebsd.hackers Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname References: <199811100634.WAA12678@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Organization: none Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Someone pointed out at some point in this somewhat confused discussion that >that would require people to repeatedly change their environment variables >before running different emulated binaries, each of which looks for uname(1) >at runtime. Are there such binaries? I thought that this was an installation script. I haven't heard of any binaries barfing on uname(1) or even uname(3). Yes, I know Netscape complains about FreeBSD's uname(3), but it's nothing you need to worry about... it's really only install scripts that even have a reason to care. This is therefore more like brandelf than LD_LIBRARY_PATH, no? Or are there actually runtime requirements for magic uname(3) results after all? -- This is The Reverend Peter da Silva's Boring Sig File - there are no references to Wolves, Kibo, Discordianism, or The Church of the Subgenius in this document "The GCOS GERTS interface is so bad that a description here is inappropriate. Anyone seeking to use this interface should seek divine guidance." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message