Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 20:22:34 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, mike@smith.net.au Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, handy@sag.space.lockheed.com, wollman@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: localtime under Linux-emu? Message-ID: <199711250922.UAA29811@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> >I seem to remember that it was non-trivial to make Linux figure out what >> >time it was, does this still hold true? >> >> I think it has always been trivial: >> >> mkdir /compat/linux/usr/lib/zoneinfo >> cp /etc/localtime /compat/linux/usr/lib/zoneinfo > >The correct for this uses a symlink in order to make the package >timezone-portable. I've done that already. It is probably actually necessary to link to or copy the whole /usr/share/zoneinfo directory. If you link to it then you can't have a symlink in the directory :-]. >> Linux `file' fails similarly. It looks for "magic" only in >> /compat/linux/usr/lib and /usr/lib/. > >Does linux 'file' use the same format as the FreeBSD 'file' for "magic"? Unless someone has broken it. >> Linux editors tend to work >> because FreeBSD has a backwards compatibility link /etc/termcap -> >> /usr/share/misc/termcap. Things should work better if /compat/linux >> contains a full Linux tree. > >"full" is somewhat of a variable concept. Beyond the above, do you >have any suggestions for other items that would be valuable? Don't bother unless a port of a Linux program actually uses a resource. This is most important for library resources. Does locale stuff work? Bruce
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