From owner-cvs-all Sun Jul 11 16:59:45 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 A47B71528E; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 16:59:29 -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 AAA53979; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 00:52:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 00:52:01 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Alex Zepeda Cc: Nik Clayton , Marcel Moolenaar , 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: <19990712005201.A53739@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990711221226.A32601@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Alex Zepeda on Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 03:52:35PM -0700 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 03:52:35PM -0700, Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > 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)? > > Sure, and I can think of two reasons off the top of my head: > > * If it depends on libraries compiled with a specific compiler or a > certian libc > > * If it depends on a specific file system layout (this is the only thing > that might be distribution dependant). That being the case, shouldn't we make sure the Linux emulation allows for this, by making sure that the directory and/or file names are very explicity about mentioning the Linux distribution/version number they are appropriate for. Implicit defaults have a nasty habit of turning around and biting you at the most inopportune moments. 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