Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:19:52 -0500 From: Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <netchild@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request inspired by ports/117068 Message-ID: <200711271220.02825.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20071124205902.6847288a@deskjail> References: <200711231134.30908.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> <20071124205902.6847288a@deskjail>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 24 November 2007 14:59:02 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> (Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:34:12 -0500): > > Is it feasible to integrate the change as requested by > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/117068 into > > emulators/linux_base-fc4? > > > > I have reviewed the Makefile, but alas, the magic of it eludes me, > > otherwise I would have a suggestion for a PR. > > The linux_base doesn't create this directory. The linuxulator falls > through to the FreeBSd /dev if it doesn't see the /compat/linux/dev. As > you can read in the messages which are referenced there, some programs > have problems with an existing /dev, some have a problem without. How > do we decide which program to "fuck-up"? Currently I would suggest to > print a message in citrix_ica which explains this issue. Or test if > some popular ports (in the thread there was skype referenced as one of > the programs which does not work well when creating the LINUXBASE/dev) > work now when the directory exists. > > Better ideas to get it working by default for all are welcome. > > Bye, > Alexander. Thank you very much for the feedback, I will procede with the documentation route for now, until further research can yield a better solution. Thomas - -- Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Ports Committer tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHTFHC5Gm/jNBp8qARAvEXAJ9lTWLxMsBTIXWN9SaJMBZ/oqJ76QCbB13h aThe4duIksDf+RccFYvIKjc= =QMin -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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