From owner-cvs-all Thu Feb 17 17: 7: 1 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from atlrel2.hp.com (atlrel2.hp.com [156.153.255.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC94937B8AB; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:06:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by atlrel2.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C45A7328; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:06:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0.1) id RAA23784; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:06:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38AC9B1F.2525BB7E@cup.hp.com> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 01:06:39 +0000 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: "(Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami)" , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, "David E. O'Brien" Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux_base Makefile References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 18-Feb-00 Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > > I agree. The kernel looks for linux files in /compat/linux, and > > that's where the port should install it. Whether /compat/linux is a > > symlink to /usr/compat/linux or someplace else is not the port's > > business. > > If someone really cares to move it, then they could add a systcl which tells > the emulator where to look, and the port can read that when it installs.. Hmmm... Not such a bad idea, although linuxulator sysctls are only present in -current and not -stable, which means that such a sysctl can only be added to -current without major impact. We're already experiencing some strubbles on -stable wrt to linux mode that I'm not really in a hurry widening the gap between -current and -stable even more. On the contrary... -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message