From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 10 05:35:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA23105 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 05:35:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from elvis.vnet.net (elvis.vnet.net [166.82.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA23100 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 05:35:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by elvis.vnet.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id IAA18301; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 08:35:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA24774; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:22:33 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id IAA27613; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 08:36:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 08:36:26 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199811101336.IAA27613@lakes.dignus.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@taronga.com Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname In-Reply-To: <199811101240.GAA08709@bonkers.taronga.com> 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. Yes - there was a least one - I ran into it. (The license checker wanted to ensure it was running on Linux.) But, I successfully lobbied the vendor to check for both FreeBSD & Linux. So - that's a done deal... Just a point of information... > > This is therefore more like brandelf than LD_LIBRARY_PATH, no? Or are there > actually runtime requirements for magic uname(3) results after all? > - Dave R. - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message