From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 13 12:32:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA17520 for current-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:32:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from amity.ai.net (mrr@[205.134.188.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA17513 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:32:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mrr@amity.ai.net) Received: from localhost (mrr@localhost) by amity.ai.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA09194; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 15:32:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 15:32:11 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael R. Rudel" To: Ollivier Robert cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux header files In-Reply-To: <19971113000940.54402@keltia.freenix.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Michael R. Rudel: > > In the on-going battle for Linux emulation (tell me again, why are we > > doing this? :)), we can now RUN Linux binarys, but compiling them is often > > not fun, due to Linux's networking and other header files. > > If Linux wasn't changing stuff just for the sake of it, it would be > better. Compiling network application designed for Linux[sic] is always a > PITA to compile on more standard systems (i.e. FreeBSD). > Yeah, that's one of the many many reasons I don't like Linsux. Their header files are crap, and make porting stuff a PITA. > > Perhaps we could somehow get these header files in the FreeBSD > > distribution, only interfaced to the FreeBSD operating system instead? > > This would make compiling stuff much eaiser. > > Pushing Cox (or whoever is maintaining it nowadays) to fix them would be > even better (fat chance I know). Heh, I don't blame them for not wanting to. Apperciate it if it was done by the next release though (I run -CURRENT, so the sooner it's commited the better. :)) > > Me, bitter ? Try compiling GateD on a Linux system for a change. Nah, no thanks. ;) > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr > FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #48: Sat Nov 8 18:08:59 CET 1997 >