Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:55:31 +0900 From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org> To: op4l@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware2 problem Message-ID: <861z4rxhfw.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: In your message of "Fri, 31 Mar 2000 03:40:33 -0800 (PST)" <20000331114033.14532.qmail@web1606.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20000331114033.14532.qmail@web1606.mail.yahoo.com>
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At Fri, 31 Mar 2000 03:40:33 -0800 (PST),
Nawfal M. Rouyan <op4l@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Why is it that the vmware2 port that I install doesn't
> seem to execute under the /compat/linux dir?
> What I mean is that vmware search for libraries which
> exists in the /compat/linux directory but when I
> execute it, it searched at the / directory.
Please read the handbook. (Chapter 23. Linux Binary Compatibility)
When a Linux program requests `/foo/bar', `/compat/linux/foo/bar' will
be the first for FreeBSD to try, and if that doesn't exist, then it
will try `/foo/bar', internally.
I guess you thought vmware2 tried only under `/' because it displayed
`/foo/bar doesn't exist'. But in reality FreeBSD must have tried both
`/compat/linux/foo/bar' and `/foo/bar'.
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