From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 24 17:06:35 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA12581 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 17:06:35 -0700 Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.97.216]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA12576 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 17:06:33 -0700 Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA17284; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 17:05:55 -0700 From: "Steven G. Kargl" Message-Id: <199510250005.RAA17284@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: linux emul is go! To: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 17:05:55 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, brian@MediaCity.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510241426.JAA04121@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at Oct 24, 95 09:26:48 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1519 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk According to Eric L. Hernes: > > > > > Apparently, one has to have exactly the "right" linux libs to get > > > things to work. Amancio was nice enough to make his available. > > > > > We really need to make this a "port" I think. Or at the very least we > > need to stick them on the CD. :) Amancio? Somebody? Might it be > > possible for you to get everything one needs in one convenient tarfile > > that we can distribute? I'm sure that if *Brian* had troubles with > > this, our average user will simply throw up his hands and claim that > > our linux emulation doesn't work for spit! :-( > > Ok, I just made a working copy of my linux libs, and a port that needs > to be tested. > > In my home dir on freefall, there are two files, a linux_lib-port.tgz, and > the corresponding libraries in a tarball, linux_lib.tar.gz. Put the second > in /usr/ports/distfiles, or adjust the MASTER_SITES macro in the makefile. > > > > > Jordan > > > > eric. > What about the sources for the linux libraries that you distribute in binary form? Will you make these available for the next 3(?) years? Will this violate the GPL? Yes, I know the sources are probably useless for everyone who runs FreeBSD (and occasionally emulates linux). But, some one has to be a devils advocate. -- Steven G. Kargl | Phone: 206-685-4677 | Applied Physics Lab | Fax: 206-543-6785 | Univ. of Washington |---------------------| 1013 NE 40th St | FreeBSD 2.x-stable | Seattle, WA 98105 |---------------------|