From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 10 05:49:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA22147 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 05:49:56 -0800 Received: from bigbird.vmicls.com (bigbird.vmicls.com [198.17.96.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA22140 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 05:49:52 -0800 Received: from gonzo by bigbird.vmicls.com (8.6.9/SMI-4.1-vmicls-master-host-1) id IAA28451; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 08:52:06 -0500 From: Jerry.Kendall@vmicls.com (Jerry Kendall) Organization: VMI Communications and Learning Systems Received: by gonzo (5.0/vmi-client-host-1) id AA07120; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 08:52:05 +0500 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 08:52:05 +0500 Message-Id: <9511101352.AA07120.gonzo@vmicls.com> To: julian@ref.tfs.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compiling Linux Binaries under FreeBSD X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII content-length: 865 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > From owner-freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Thu Nov 9 17:19:06 1995 > From: Julian Elischer > Subject: Re: Compiling Linux Binaries under FreeBSD > To: mjb@siva.apana.org.au (Marcus Barczak) > Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 14:00:56 -0800 (PST) > Cc: apana-lists-os-freebsd-hackers@apana.org.au > > > > > > > Wouldn't it be just as easy to create a small 60 or so meg partition > > and just install the development tools. > > > you could chroot to a linux partition and run an 'all linux' > environment while running FreeBSD :) > Not a complaint here, BUT, why would someone want to compile and run all the LINUX binaries while running FreeBSD ??? Seems to me, if you want to run Linux, then run it. Don't emulate it under FreeBSD. Unless of course, FreeBSD can emulate it faster/better than Linux can run it(the programs I mean). Jerry