Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:07:22 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using brandelf Message-ID: <4753026A.10105@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <4743B762.60507@gmail.com> References: <4743B2DA.6020304@chuckr.org> <4743B762.60507@gmail.com>
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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chuck Robey wrote: >> Can you use brandelf to read the elf type of a binary? The man page >> shows a usage that might possibly do this, but doesn't bother to say >> what that usage does. >> >> To be honest, I need to do some work with the linux stuff, and the >> usage of /compat/linux and /usr/compat/linux, well, I don't >> understand, and I haven't seen a good enough explanation yet. Stuff >> like the ld.so.conf file to configure linux's ldconfig, it assumes >> the /compat/linux prefix. Do all the binaries do that? I mean, the >> browser files, they use a sh scri[t to kick them off, do they use >> that prefix, or assume stuff? >> >> I need to know this so I can keep going forward on getting flash to >> work. > > If you're attempting to rebrand the linux flash exec (I assume 9 since > I know for a fact 7 works right out of the box [ff 2.0.0.9, gnome > 2.20.1, amd64 8-current]) no amount of hacking will make it like > FreeBSD since it uses some linux specific stuff... your better off > learning compat.. I found a Linux emulation app, one that installed libs, that put it's libs into /usr/local/lib, and I guess I wanted some more data, but I went ahead, moved them to a place that seemed good to me under /compat/linux (I hafe a Gentoo system, I know that Linux premendously abuses their /usr/bin and /usr/llib, to stick their packages into, mixing their OS and user stuff completely. Anyhow, I moved the libs, used the linux ldconfig, and now the libs user's work fine. That was a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to know enough to determine if it was worth a PR on this. It seems to me that a whole lot of various ports put things where they don't belong, because LOCALBASE and X11BASE seem to be disregarded by some ports also. I found a font port that used a search of pkgconfig files to figure out where to install to, and I couldn't fix it. I personally don't care for the fact that X11 ports now all install into /usr/local, and I found that no amount of manipulation of LOCALBASE or X11BASE fixes this. I just gave up and installed (unwillingly) to /usr/local. At least, it's not like Linux, which does largely without any /usr/local. That much makes separating system and packages for Linux just about impossible.
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