On 17-3-2013 13:38, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: >> Looked into getting an fpcup FreeBSD x64=>Linux x86 cross compiler >> module going on PC-BSD 9/FreeBSD 9.1. >> >> Although the /compat/linux library is there, it misses binutils like as, >> ld etc and I presume it misses a lot of libraries, too. >> >> Tried installing >> /usr/ports/emulators/linux_dist-gentoo-stage3 >> which failed: got an error saying it was broken. >> >> My questions: >> 1. An alternative could be to get Linux binaries/libs from a Linux >> install and put them in /compat/linux... Is this useful? Which binaries >> should I use - or IOW what Linux is FreeBSD trying to emulate - RHEL 6? >> 2. Is there another port that I could install/an easier way of doing things? > > I always considered compat/ a run-its-binaries environment only, not a > development-for-it environment. > > What is in compat/ differs with major version, and I haven't kept up. As > long as adobe reader works with it, it was always fine with me. > > I've never tried this the proper way. I always used the scripts that I later > put in (fpcbuild/)install/cross to build myself, and then manually fetched > libraries from whatever target. Ok, thanks, I suppose that's the easier way.
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