From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 27 17:20:12 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93CBE16A418; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:20:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tabthorpe@freebsd.org) Received: from tbaytel.net (front2-nwconx.tbaytel.net [216.211.26.163]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38CD913C448; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:20:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tabthorpe@freebsd.org) X-Scanned-by-Cloudmark: Yes X-Spam-Score: 0.000000 Received: from goodking.goodking.ca (account thomasa@tbaytel.net [216.26.208.2] verified) by front2.tbaytel.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.13) with ESMTPSA id 95302560; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:20:09 -0500 From: Thomas Abthorpe Organization: FreeBSD Ports Committer To: Alexander Leidinger Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:19:52 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200711231134.30908.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> <20071124205902.6847288a@deskjail> In-Reply-To: <20071124205902.6847288a@deskjail> X-Face: /|[9,PbEOB6g>?2^*Sc|"~6:Ro"O>Nv\Rfkv\42g)=?utf-8?q?TuAYG=26+bD=5CpCJTX31s=5Fp=7Bc7=5D5a=2ED=2E=0A=09Y?=@QddKu_I[XB8; euK=^[=L1I#]rgi[0jgz^4qCTwlj]3kJ)]vc}O"HrA14hN)=?utf-8?q?aXewJPTi=7C=0A=09Pt=7BS3=23Vw4x-?="/:& Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request inspired by ports/117068 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tabthorpe@freebsd.org List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:20:12 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 24 November 2007 14:59:02 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Thomas Abthorpe (Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:34:12 -0500): > > Is it feasible to integrate the change as requested by > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/117068 into > > emulators/linux_base-fc4? > > > > I have reviewed the Makefile, but alas, the magic of it eludes me, > > otherwise I would have a suggestion for a PR. > > The linux_base doesn't create this directory. The linuxulator falls > through to the FreeBSd /dev if it doesn't see the /compat/linux/dev. As > you can read in the messages which are referenced there, some programs > have problems with an existing /dev, some have a problem without. How > do we decide which program to "fuck-up"? Currently I would suggest to > print a message in citrix_ica which explains this issue. Or test if > some popular ports (in the thread there was skype referenced as one of > the programs which does not work well when creating the LINUXBASE/dev) > work now when the directory exists. > > Better ideas to get it working by default for all are welcome. > > Bye, > Alexander. Thank you very much for the feedback, I will procede with the documentation route for now, until further research can yield a better solution. Thomas - -- Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Ports Committer tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHTFHC5Gm/jNBp8qARAvEXAJ9lTWLxMsBTIXWN9SaJMBZ/oqJ76QCbB13h aThe4duIksDf+RccFYvIKjc= =QMin -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----