Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 19:53:58 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM DB2 Message-ID: <XFMail.981221195358.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <199812211738.JAA02363@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On 21-Dec-98 Mike Smith wrote: > Ok. I wasted Sunday on this sucker (and to think I could have cleaned > the bathroom instead...). Ehm, no comment ;) > Their target with this build is clearly RedHat 5.2. We're not there > yet in terms of environment support. To play with it you will need: I hate all that platform specific stuff by now... Can't people at least provide a generic way and then mayhaps platform specific stuff? (OK, so I am rambling...) > - a working /compat/linux/bin/rpm > - libraries from RedHat 5.2, installed using rpm > - /compat/linux/bin/sh, installed using rpm > - /compat/linux/bin/ksh, installed using rpm Did the RPM in 5.2 change from what rpm.org is offering? Libraries: glib++ to name one? > and that's as far as I've gotten. We may also have problems with its > shared-memory requirements. > > The documentation for this beast is pretty good; the installation > worksheets and general degree of assurance and handholding is fairly > confidence-inspiring, as is the fact that no matter how irritating, > they've actually taken the packaging requirements of the platform > seriously. Heh, seems like Big Blue is learning, finally, after years... ;) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Life is the only Pain asmodai(at)wxs.nl we endeavour... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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