From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 22 10:28: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3909637C1ED for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:27:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F68A24; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:26:50 -0800 (PST) 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 KAA18961; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:26:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38D91069.C61478E9@cup.hp.com> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:26:49 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joao Paulo Campello Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: linux_base6.1 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joao Paulo Campello wrote: > > Gimme a hand: What's the suggest way to solve problems like a linux > application not finding some other program in an expected dir? (like > /usr/bin/expr). Should I symlink all the complained files or is there a > way I can use RPM (like you said) and it would detect all the necessary > files in /compat/linux/... ? Tricky. Sometimes fixing the install-script (for example) is the easiest and cleanest solution. Sometimes installing a rpm may make life much easier. I tend to keep /compat/linux as clean as possible, but this may be caused by the fact that I need a clean environment to do development in :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message