From owner-cvs-all Sun Jul 11 15:46:36 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C51151CD; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 15:46:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.2) id WAA33789; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:12:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:12:26 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Nik Clayton , obrien@FreeBSD.org, Sheldon Hearn , 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> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <378593B1.8B4D4746@scc.nl>; from Marcel Moolenaar on Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 08:16:17AM +0200 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message