Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 08:36:26 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@taronga.com Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname Message-ID: <199811101336.IAA27613@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <199811101240.GAA08709@bonkers.taronga.com>
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> >Someone pointed out at some point in this somewhat confused discussion that > >that would require people to repeatedly change their environment variables > >before running different emulated binaries, each of which looks for uname(1) > >at runtime. > > Are there such binaries? I thought that this was an installation script. I > haven't heard of any binaries barfing on uname(1) or even uname(3). Yes, I > know Netscape complains about FreeBSD's uname(3), but it's nothing you need > to worry about... it's really only install scripts that even have a reason > to care. Yes - there was a least one - I ran into it. (The license checker wanted to ensure it was running on Linux.) But, I successfully lobbied the vendor to check for both FreeBSD & Linux. So - that's a done deal... Just a point of information... > > This is therefore more like brandelf than LD_LIBRARY_PATH, no? Or are there > actually runtime requirements for magic uname(3) results after all? > - Dave R. - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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