From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 9 04:17:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA10431 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 04:17:22 -0800 Received: from core.apana.org.au (core.apana.org.au [203.12.236.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA10425 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 04:17:15 -0800 Received: from vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk (vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk [130.209.240.50]) by core.apana.org.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA04990 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 23:12:13 +1100 Message-Id: <199511091212.XAA04990@core.apana.org.au> Received: from seram.dcs.gla.ac.uk by vanuata.dcs.gla.ac.uk with LOCAL SMTP (PP); Thu, 9 Nov 1995 12:08:24 +0000 To: mjb@siva.apana.org.au (Marcus Barczak) cc: apana-lists-os-freebsd-hackers@apana.org.au Subject: Re: Compiling Linux Binaries under FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "09 Nov 1995 16:47:56 +1100." <47s4mc$1v1@siva.apana.org.au> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 12:08:02 +0000 From: Simon Marlow Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Ok, so now that we have Linux emulation, what is that chance of my > >being able to set up a Linux compilation environment under FreeBSD? > > Is there really any practical reason why you would be wanting to build > linux bins on your FreeBSD machine ? Yes. The software we are developing requires a Linux and a FreeBSD port, and we only have one machine available. > >I'd need include files, libraries, gcc, ld, as, ar, and various other > >tools, which presumably would all go under /compat/linux. Can anyone > >foresee any problems with this? > > Wouldn't it be just as easy to create a small 60 or so meg partition > and just install the development tools. No, because that means rebooting - so no simultaneous FreeBSD/Linux development. It was a legitimate question! Cheers, Simon -- Simon Marlow simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk Research Assistant http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~simonm/ finger for PGP public key