From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 22 21:47:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA05660 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 21:47:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA05616 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 21:47:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA24090 for ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 14:17:37 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199610230447.OAA24090@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Interest in a linux_crossdev port? To: ports@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 14:17:37 +0930 (CST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ok, we currently have the 'linux_lib' package, which is quite suitable for people who want to run Lunix binaries. However setting up tools to build Linux binaries is a Right Royal pain, made no easier at all by the crap they call "distributions". Is it felt that there's some interest in a package that would put all the bits in more-or-less the right place? Obviously, this isn't going to track their patch-of-the-hour environment, but if we base it on the same release as the 'linux_lib' package, people should have a fairly consistent environment to work with. I've just gone through the horror involved here, and I thought it might be good to do this before it all fades away again. Any advice (erich?) would be appreciated... -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[