From owner-freebsd-ports Fri May 26 17:34: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from manatee.mammalia.org (manatee.mammalia.org [216.231.50.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 450B537B9A7 for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 17:34:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjoseph@manatee.mammalia.org) Received: (from rjoseph@localhost) by manatee.mammalia.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA65780 for freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 26 May 2000 17:34:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjoseph) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 17:33:59 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: linux libraries/includes Message-ID: <20000526173359.A65740@manatee.mammalia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've seen recent discussions about the nature of linux emulation and how the emulation looks for libraries under /compat/linux/usr/lib before checking in theusual places, like /usr/local/lib. I have several questions and thoughts relating to this and linux ports. 1) Does the emulator also look for include files under /compat/linux? 2) Many linux ports do not place their files under /compat/linux. linux-netscape is one example. Is that "proper"? 3) I created a port not long ago from a linux binary that also did not place any files under /compat/linux. However, I've tried putting the libraries and includes there and it still works. I assume it would be a good idea to change the port so that they go there. 4) How far should one go in putting files under /compat/linux? Obviously it would be impractical to put *everything* there, such as executables, since for good reasons /compat/linux/usr/bin (for example) is not generally put in the search path. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message