Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 17:40:56 +0100 (BST) From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: "Richard E. Hawkins" <dochawk@psu.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a linux shell? (pgroup Fortran compiler) Message-ID: <200105081640.RAA03457@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Richard E. Hawkins's message of Tue, 08 May 2001 12:32:58 -0400
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> I've seen reference in a couple of documents to a lunx shell. What I'm > after is for tcsh to make programs within it think they're running > linux and with appropriate shell variables. /compat/linux/bin/bash Once you're running that, if you (say) try to run ls, the shell will try /bin/ls, but because it's in compatibility mode this will try /compat/linux/bin/ls first, so you will get the Linux ls. This works sufficiently well that using gcc will result in the Linux gcc being run and generating Linux binaries, but I don't know if it will be enough for what you need. -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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