Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:12:26 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, obrien@FreeBSD.org, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux-base-5.2 - Imported sources Message-ID: <19990711221226.A32601@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <378593B1.8B4D4746@scc.nl>; from Marcel Moolenaar on Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 08:16:17AM %2B0200 References: <6514.931435144@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <3784953E.20F2005E@scc.nl> <19990708114649.A67400@dragon.nuxi.com> <3784FA51.639E1920@scc.nl> <19990708223740.A3633@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <378593B1.8B4D4746@scc.nl>
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On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 08:16:17AM +0200, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > Is there ever likely to be a need to have more than two copies of the libs
> > installed, and in different places?
>
> I'd hope not, but it has always been in the back of my mind that such may
> be the case.
>
> > We might well want to have a
> >
> > /compat/redhat-linux-60
> > /compat/debian-linux-52
> > /compat/suse-linux-4
>
> If most of the dynamic linked Linux binaries in those directories use the
> same "interpreter", you loose your way to distinguish the binaries. I think
> it's not possible (even if it can be sdone technically :-)
If it's possible (and I don't know whether it is or not) is it worth doing?
FreeBSD is a "better Linux than Linux", not a "better Linux than Redhat".
Are there any circumstances where a (for example) Debian binary might not
run with Redhat libs installed (or a SuSE binary, or a Caldera binary,
or whatever)?
I don't know, and I'll happily defer to your better judgement on this
matter.
N
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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