From owner-cvs-all Thu Jul 8 23:16:35 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B03F14E59; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 23:16:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from scones.sup.scc.nl (i455.ztm.euronet.nl [194.134.67.176]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA19750; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 08:16:20 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from scc.nl (scones.sup.scc.nl [192.168.2.4]) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA14855; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 08:16:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <378593B1.8B4D4746@scc.nl> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 08:16:17 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Sheldon Hearn , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux-base-5.2 - Imported sources References: <6514.931435144@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <3784953E.20F2005E@scc.nl> <19990708114649.A67400@dragon.nuxi.com> <3784FA51.639E1920@scc.nl> <19990708223740.A3633@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Nik Clayton wrote: > Is there ever likely to be a need to have more than two copies of the libs > installed, and in different places? I'd hope not, but it has always been in the back of my mind that such may be the case. > We might well want to have a > > /compat/redhat-linux-60 > /compat/debian-linux-52 > /compat/suse-linux-4 If most of the dynamic linked Linux binaries in those directories use the same "interpreter", you loose your way to distinguish the binaries. I think it's not possible (even if it can be sdone technically :-) > or whatever, all installed at once. Different apps would be configured > (perhaps as an extension of brandelf?) to look in different place as > necessary. The case in which brandelf is always required before a Linux binary can be used is not a case we want. Too many install/setup procedures get broken by that. > It'll be a fairly pathological case, but it'd be nice if the capability > wasn't designed out of the system from the beginning. Well, that was originally the case when I included the version number in the ports directory. I got the impression that that was not at all welcome :-) I now have decided to drop the version numbering. Using RH52 as the version is even worse then it now is. > The variant-symlink supporters may now begin their incense burning and > ritual chanting. :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4200655 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message