Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:51:58 -0800 From: andi payn <andi_payn@speedymail.org> To: Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kylix in FreeBSD Message-ID: <1068519118.3935.12.camel@verdammt.falcotronic.net> In-Reply-To: <20031106140957.B1B1E93@toad.stack.nl> References: <20031106140957.B1B1E93@toad.stack.nl>
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On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 06:09, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > * jasaorp <jasaorp@yahoo.com.br> [031031 04:59]: > > Getting the Kylix IDE to function on FreeBSD has been one of the ongoing > > hair-pulling tasks I undertake every few months. The installer alone is > > a pain in the ass, since it performs "compatibility checks" in such > > Linux-centric ways as hard-coding /bin/bash into the shell scripts, and > > searching for shared libraries by name from hard-coded paths. (GTK > > especially gives the installer fits because FreeBSD's gtk library has a > > -x11 at the end of the name.) But once you work around those issues > > with some creative symlinking and script editing, the console tools > > install fairly painlessly. A while back, someone put together a howto for installing Kylix on Mandrake (which, despite being a linux distro, also has the "wrong" names for many libraries, such as gtk-x11). If this is still being maintained, it might have some useful hints for getting/keeping it working on FreeBSD. > If you futs with getting Kylix to run under FreeBSD, don't forget the > special glibc requirements that some versions of Kylix have. Maybe you > should probably simply replace the entire /compat userland with the userland > of a distro that Kylix supprorts _with_ kylix extra patches installed? I managed to get Kylix sort of working by booting to linux, installing Kylix, rebooting to FreeBSD, then copying most of /mnt/linux to /compat/linux. Unfortunately, this also broke nearly all of my other linux ports.... Is there some documentation on what exactly FreeBSD expects to find there? For example, if I wanted to build a linux_base-mdk9.2, so I could more easily run all the binaries I have built/installed on a Mandrake 9.2 system, where would I start?
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