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Date:      Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:45:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dave Walton <walton@nordicdms.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Linux libs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204154457.16157A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980204203348818.AAA263@mail-ftp.nordicdms.com>

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On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Dave Walton wrote:

> > A Linux cross-compiling environment exists.  You can't link Linux libs in
> > a FreeBSD binary but you could build a LInux binary using the linux lib
> > and use the emulator to run it.
> > 
> > I think the port name is linux-devel, in category devel.
> 
> 
> Hmmm...  So I'd have a Linux-compiled Apache loading a Linux-compiled 
> mod_php linked with the Linux ct-lib all running under the 
> Linuxulator.  Anyone have any comments about the stability and 
> reliability of that setup compared to a native Apache and mod_php 
> setup?

It's probably worth a test, at least :-)

It should be pretty good, the linuxulator only translates the syscalls and
library calls as necessary, otherwise it falls through to the normal
system.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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