Felix Palmen <zir...@freebsd.org> writes:
* Trenton Schulz <tren...@norwegianrockcat.com> [20230822
12:55]:
This is really fascinating work, and I see value in this even
if some other
way of doing things eventually replaces the Centos-7 items.
Thanks a lot!
No problem. Having been struggling with some cross-compiling
issues at work, this hits home. :-)
Some of this has a bit of overlap with Gentoo prefix
(https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix), where one puts
the bare bones
of a Gentoo distro under a "prefix" (for example,
/compat/linux), but then
you can use Gentoo's portage infrastructure to build the other
parts of the
system.
Hm, kind of interesting project ;) well sure, might be another
source to
look at when hitting some weird issues. But using "portage" IMHO
wouldn't make much sense, we already have our ports system ;)
Yes, yes. I guess this was more for hitting weird issues or
another way for getting the Linux userland. When I have to do
anything some GUI app in the Linuxulator, it's a struggle to track
down all those extra libraries. Then, I start to think, I should
make a "port for this", but by then, I have forgot to keep track
off all the RPMs, plus I have it working on the one system I need
it on, and then I move onto something else. (Master PDF Editor has
been a victim of this a couple of times *sigh*).
In theory, with Gentoo prefix one "emerges" them out of the
prefix. Of course, the ports tree could easily do this too, but I
just thought you might be able to borrow some things out of
portage.
Regardless, I'm really interested in how this turns out, so I
think I'll just get back to watching and wishing you luck.
I imagine, you are maybe thinking of your own set of linux-* in
the ports
tree, but this might also be useful area to borrow from?
Anyway, I'll lurk back into the shadows to see how this
develops.
Well, I guess it'll take me a few days to stabilize stuff and a
few
*more* days to create some helpful USING for it ... but then,
I'll try
to build some additional libs and find some proof of concept of
some
Linux binary (closed-source?) working on it. That's the rough
plan ... I
have some hopes ;)
Again, good luck! I guess Master PDF Editor could be a candidate
for a closed source binary (I have made it work before in the
regular Linuxulator, but don't use it now).
Best regards,
--
Trenton
Cheers, Felix
